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2007 - 2009 Detailed Salary and Rate Reports - Extremely Accurate

You must login and have access permissions to view these reports. Members of Elephant who participate in the survey can access the results for free (for details...). Nonmembers who participate can pay a very small annual fee for access that helps cover the cost of processing the survey (for details...). Others can purchase nonparticipant access .

Q1 2010 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q1 2010 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q4 2009 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q4 2009 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q4 2009 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q3 2009 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q3 2009 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q3 2009 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q2 2009 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q2 2009 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q1 2009 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q1 2009 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q1 2009 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q4 2008 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q4 2008 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q4 2008 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q3 2008 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q3 2008 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q3 2008 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q2 2008 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q2 2008 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q2 2008 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q1 2008 Salaries for Technical/Marcom Writers and Documentation Managers

Q1 2008 Freelance Rates for Technical and Marcom Writers

Q1 2008 Freelance Rates for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Q4 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries

Q4 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates

Q4 2007 Freelance Copy Editor Rates

Q3 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries

Q3 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates

Q2 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries

Q2 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates

Q1 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries

Q1 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates

 

Free Access Salary Survey Results

Dec. 13, 2006 Inhouse Salary Update with Company Size and Experience Breakdowns (for survey participants only)

Other Pricelists and Salary Surveys

Editorial Freelancers Association Editorial Rates - September 2008

National Union of Journalists (UK) Fees Guide - not clear if this is for 2006/7 or 2007/8

Win Writer 2007 Salary Survey (most of the data is from the US, but it is worth looking at)

Computer Jobs in Israel 2009 Salary Survey

Computer Jobs in Israel 2008 Salary Survey

Computer Jobs in Israel 2007 Salary Survey

Techshoret Salary Survey (no breakdowns and no verification mechanism)

CPS Jobs Salary Survey (breakdown by experience only)

How Much Should I Charge? by Lynn Wasnak  - date of data unknown - copyright says 2007 but page source says 1996.

STC-Israel November 2006 Salary Survey Salary survey results... Demographic statistics...

Rick Teplitz's presentation on Pricing Writing Projects (posted at www.englishcommunicator.com)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook Report on Writers and Editors 2006-7 Edition (US information)

2006 Israel Translators Association (ITA) Translation Price Guidelines (posted at the leshonit.allbiz.co.il site)

2004 Histadrut pricelist for Editing, Journalism and Publishing (posted at COandPI site under Files)

Usability Professionals Association  2005 Salary Survey (mostly data from the US, but it is worth looking at)

Win Writer 2006 Salary Survey (most of the data is from the US, but it is worth looking at)

 

Tax Deductable Education Fund/Retirement Plan Info

Comparison of Results (Israeli government site)

Phone Directories in Israel

Bezeq

Hot

Reverse Directory

Professional Mailing Lists

CJI

Computer Jobs in Israel contains job listings in Israeli hi-tech companies and other useful resources.

Janglo

Jerusalem Anglo Protexia is a huge list of English speaking Israelis with postings and advertisements on all kinds of things. They had over 12,000 subscribers before moving to their new site.

Techshoret

Techshoret is a heavy traffic list. With over 1900 subscribers it is the largest mailing list in the Israeli tech writing community.

stc-israel@googlegroups.com

This is a low-traffic alternate mailing list similar to Techshoret with 500 subscribers. It is maintained by the Israel chapter of the Society of Technical Communicators.

CIWI

CIWI is a high traffic list aimed at freelance English language writers. It is relatively new, but has grown to nearly 1500 subscribers. Their core group consists more of journalists and creative writers. CIWI uses a tag system in the subject line.

Israel Marcom

Israel Marcom is geared for items of specific interest to Marcom professionals in Israel. It's main focus is on networking and announcement of opportunities within the Israeli marketing communications business arena.

Marcshoret

Marchshoret is a spinoff of Techshoret aimed at Marcom writers with just under 300 subscribers..

 

Copyeditors & Proofreaders Israel

COandPI is a very serious list aimed at freelance English copyeditors and proofreaders in Israel. COandPI uses a tag system in the subject line and has grown to over 350 members.

Techwr-l

Techwr-l is the largest and most influential list in the international tech writing community. Traffic is extremely heavy with over 1,000 emails a month.

Tech Comm Pros

Tech Comm Pros is a break-off from Techwr-l and already has a lot of traffic and discussions worth following.

HATT

HATT is mailing list for users of Help Authoring Tools.

 

Free or Low-cost Utilities

Jonathan’s Tool Bar & Grill shares information on free or low-cost utilities and Web sites.

 

Viewing Hebrew Text on the Internet

The following links were provided by Amnon Avidor on Techshoret

המרת עברית שלא מוצגת בשינוי קידוד convert text that was encoded wrong

Flip text that appears reversed

 

Useful Business Sites

Israel Export Institute

Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce