Unsure what salary to offer when recruiting for a Technical Author documenting IT products and software, financial procedures or medical equipment? This guide will help.
Cherryleaf surveys the technical writing community for data on the current salaries, as well as analysing the salaries offered by companies hiring via Cherryleaf’s recruiting service. We also look at data from other sources. The guide is currently based on data from 2012.
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- £20,000-£25,000
- £25,000-£30,000
- £30,000-£35,000
- £35,000-£40,000
- £40,000-£45,000
- £45,000-£50,000
- £50,000-£55,000
- £60,000-£70,000
- Graduate/Trainee Technical Author
Typically, this would be someone less than 1 year’s experience as a Technical Author. They may benefit from Cherryleaf’s Technical Writer Induction course.
- Technical Author outside of the South East, Cambridge, London, and the West Country
- Junior/Graduate Technical Author in Greater London, the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
The national average salary for a Technical Author is £31,500 per annum. There are typically higher than average salaries in the South East, and lower salaries the further away from the South East you go.
- Senior Technical Author outside of the South East, Cambridge, London, and the West Country
- Technical Author in Greater London, the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
Once a Technical Author has five or more year’s experience, then salary variations are usually due to factors such as location, level of responsibility, specialist knowledge, and whether they manage localisation projects.
- Senior Technical Author/Documentation Manager outside of the South East, Cambridge, London, and the West Country
- Senior Technical Author/Technical Author in the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
Once a Technical Author has five or more year’s experience, then salary variations are usually due to factors such as location, level of responsibility, specialist knowledge, and whether they manage localisation projects.
- Documentation Manager outside of the South East, Cambridge, London, and the West Country
- Senior Technical Author in the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
Once a Technical Author has five or more year’s experience, then salary variations are usually due to factors such as location, level of responsibility, specialist knowledge, and whether they manage localisation projects.
- Technical Author in the City of London
- Lead Technical Author in the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
- Documentation Manager in the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
- Documentation Manager of a very large Technical Publications department outside of the South East, Cambridge, London, and the West Country
- Senior/Lead Technical Author in the City of London and Cambridge
- Documentation Manager in the South East, Cambridge, the West Country
- Documentation Manager or Head of Technical Publications
Typically, this would be someone managing a large team of writers and translators, and they would be working either in the City of London or for a very successful IT company.
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