Technical Writing Jobs and Technical Writing Salary
Technical Writer, 43'rd Best Job in the U.S. in 2019
Careercast, who have been listing the best jobs in America for the past 30 years have listed ‘Technical Writer’ in the 43‘rd position for 2019. This is a fall from previous standings. ‘Technical Writer’ was in the 31’st position in 2016 and in the 24’th position in 2015. Despite this fall in position ‘Technical Writer’ beats every other writing job in the rankings. The closest writing job, Typist / Word Processor came in at position 112 and Stenographer at 120. But the astonishing thing is that ‘Technical Writer’ even beat several other key jobs and positions in the list including Civil Engineer, Surgeon, Psychiatrist, Judge, School Principal though the just-mentioned jobs have bigger salaries and some, good growth.
Bear in mind that the list of jobs listed by Careercast is not for IT jobs or Writing jobs alone but one considering all types of jobs there are in the U.S.A (excluding Political Positions of course!). This includes jobs in the Medicial profession and Health Care, Engineering, Law, Hospitality and Services, University and Education, Business and Office Administration. Also take a note of the other information in the report for Technical Writer. The Average Median Income for the Technical Writer in 2019 was $71,815.00.
One of the most promising and lucrative writing careers of the Software industry are technical writing jobs, in fact the No.1 Writing Job there is. As I have mentioned earlier, as long as new software continues to be created every day, user manuals or user guides to explain what the software or app does is mandatory and therefore the demand for good Technical Writers is only increasing.
Besides end-user software documentation Technical writers are also involved in the documentation work during the making of the software, from its inception till completion, though end-user documentation is the primary task of the Technical Writer.
Glassdoor (September, 15’th, 2022) reports that today’s Technical Writer draws an average salary of US$69,472 with the more experienced Technical writers drawing a n annual salary of $88,163.
Robert Half predicts that starting Annual Salaries for Technical Writers (newbies) in 2023 in the U.S, will be $64,000 and upwards to $80,750 – $904,250 a year for experienced hands.
For more detailed salary reports check out Payscale. Here you can check for salaries by city (any city in the world) and by years of experience and a whole bunch of other parameters. For instance, in the city of San Francisco, Payscale reports that a Senior Technical Writer with 10 years of experience makes a median annual salary of $106,000 and with 5 years of experience a Technical Writer makes a median of $83,000 and newbies make a median of $55,000. All these considering they have an undergraduate degree and a certificate in Technical Writing.
Btw, most of the sites mentioned here double as Job portals too. Other excellent Job portals I would recommend are Indeed and the good old, Monster. (There may be your-country specific sites for these websites too)
If you are considering changing careers or if you are looking for alternative careers in writing or if you are considering writing as a career then you cannot ignore the plentiful technical writer jobs in the market today. To get qualified with experience for one of these technical writing jobs click the link below to be taken to the courses page .
A freelance technical writer is a great career in writing and if you are considering technical writing jobs from home. I have been a freelancer myself since 2006.
To learn how to freelance using some of the best sites for freelance technical writing jobs on the internet check the freelance technical writer <link coming soon> page.
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