Editor’s Note: Introducing a new guest blogger to Cherryleaf’s blog: Dr. Tony Self of HyperWrite.
Where are all the technical writers?
I have often wondered why there are so few technical writers in the world.
In my country, Australia, the Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates there are over 2,000 technical writers within the total workforce of 11.65 million people. The Australian Government groups technical writers into a category called ”Journalists and Other Writers”. That category of writer has shown little growth over the last decade, and in 2011 represented just 21,400 people.
In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that there were about 50,000 American technical writers in 2010.
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