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XE.com Personal Currency Assistant
2007 Detailed Salary and Rate Reports - Extremely Accurate
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Q4 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries (requires access authorization - details)
Q4 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates (requires access authorization - details)
Q4 2007 Freelance Copy Editor Rates (requires access authorization - details)
Q3 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries (requires access authorization - details)
Q3 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates (requires access authorization - details)
Q2 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries (requires access authorization - details)
Q2 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates (requires access authorization - details)
Q1 2007 Technical and Marcom Writer Salaries (requires access authorization - details)
Q1 2007 Technical and Marcom Freelance Writer Rates (requires access authorization - details)
Free Access SalarySurvey Results
Dec. 13, 2006 Inhouse Salary Update with Company Size and Experience Breakdowns (for survey participants only)
Nov. 18, 2006 Freelance Rate Survey Update (for survey participants only)
Nov. 17, 2006 Salary Survey Update with Company Size Breakdown (for survey participants and Forum members only)
Oct. 19, 2006 Inhouse Salary Survey Update (for survey participants and Forum members only)
Oct. 11, 2006 Contractor Rate Results (for survey participants and Forum members only)
May 1, 2006 Salary Survey Results (available to the general public)
Other Pricelists and Salary Surveys
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 2007 Salary Survey
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)
Professional Mailing Lists
Computer Jobs in Israel contains job listings in Israeli hi-tech companies and other useful resources.
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 is a heavy traffic list. With over 1700 subscribers it is the largest and most influential list in the Israeli tech writing community.
This is a low-traffic alternate mailing list to Techshoret with 500 subscribers. It is maintained by the Israel chapter of the Society of Technical Communicators.
CIWI is a newer list aimed at freelance English language writers that has grown to over 800 subscribers. Their core group consists more of journalists and creative writers. CIWI uses a tag system in the subject line.
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.
Copyeditors & Proofreaders Israel
COandPI is a new list aimed at freelance English copyeditors and proofreaders in Israel. COandPI uses a tag system in the subject line and has grown to over 200 members.
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 is a recent break-off from Techwr-l and already has a lot of traffic and discussions worth following.
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
Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce
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