2006 Huntsville STC Salary Survey Report
April 2007

• Employers benefit from information on compensation trends in the profession. In periods of high demand it can be crucial to understand how compensation influences an employers ability to attract and retain employees.

The STC national salary survey results for 2006 are available to members online at http://www.stc.org/salarySurvey.asp (to be posted May 2007)

Brief Summary - We received 123 usable surveys from part-time and full-time technical communicators.  (Surveys that did not report gross salary had to be discarded.)  Compensation analysis is based on 101 full-time salaried respondents. 

Compensation Analysis by Job Function (PDF format) - the best guide to salary

Demographic Analysis, Full-Time Salaried - by industry and employment level (comparable to STC national salary data)

Comparison to Other Salary Data - compares our 2006 data to HNA 2005 and to STC national 2005 (2006 not available at time of report).

Tabulated Results, by Job Function, Experience, and Industry

Interpreting This Report

Previous Salary Survey Data: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002,  2001, 2000, 1999

The Huntsville/North Alabama chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) wishes to thank the following people: Charlsey Myers, the UAH graduate student who analyzed the data;  Jim McCullars, UAH webmaster, who developed the script that automated data entry; Sandra Price, the UAH student who studied our survey methods and developed the Access database we use to promote the survey; and Lonnye Yancey-Smith and Rose Norman, STC HNA officers who created the original online survey.

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