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- From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
- Subject: What is desktop publishing doing to your salary in tech pubs?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.184104.20013@linus.mitre.org>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:41:04 GMT
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- At one time, a writer/editor in a tech pubs department spent a relatively
- large part of their time researching, analyzing, organizing, and writing
- information. Composition and formatting were done by others, who
- specialized in that part of the documentation process. In general,
- writing and editing skills were rewarded with higher salaries than
- composition and formatting skills. With the arrival of desktop publishing
- tools, writers and editors inevitably seem to be doing more routine
- composition work, and less of the more demanding research and analysis.
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- What does this trend seem to be doing to salaries, or at least to the
- perceived value of a writer/editor? In one respect, the extra skill
- implies an added value. But, does the larger percentage of routine work
- lead a company to justify a lower pay scale? Anybody seen anything that
- might indicate a trend?
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