7/14 I just learned that our tech writer makes $110K a year, is
my company stupid or do tech writers really deserve that much?
\_ who hired it? is it sleeping with a VP?
\_ is it h07 4zn ch1x?
\_ is (s)he actually any good?
\_ esp. in bed?
\_ is someone feeling a little jealous?
\_ Go and find out how much the sales guys/gals make. The good
can make 2x-4x what mid-level engineers make.
\_ Sales is a little different, its base + commission.
Usually base is quite low.
\_ Spoken like someone who has been told this but never seen
actual figures. What's "low base" to a sales person is often
\_ at cisco the base was 55K to 65K - cisco alum
"quite high" to an engineer. Salespeople are EXPENSIVE. AND
they frequently suck ass.
\_ at cisco the base was 55K to 65K. Engineers
made about 75K to 100K + bonus (10-80% of
salary depending on grade and performance).
Sales didn't get the same sort of bonus.
- cisco alum
\_ Of course, ass suckage is not limited to sales people.
\_ Sun offered a coworker $110K + commission to do technical
sales. I know someone at Cisco who is entry-level (to
tech - he sold other stuff before then) who was offered
$80K + commission + $20K signing bonus. The good salesmen
make over $200K and sometimes $300K. They also have a
clear path of advancement. --dim
\_ I overhear people at work "yeah, but when he was signed
on he was here for the commission; they were paying him
some crappy salary like $75k" I sighed.
\_ This seems a little high. At cisco the doc writers used to
make about half of that. - cisco alum
\_ It seems a bit high, but not by much, from what I've seen. --chris
\_ You company is stupid. Good companies do not pay the
people who write the manuals more than the people who
write the software. |
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