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What is this?
This annual survey, run by the Write the Docs community, aims to gather data about salaries for people working in documentation and related fields around the world.
We hope that this data can help our community members determine appropriate salary ranges, provide a benchmark for negotiations, and inform employment-related decision-making.
Who’s behind it?
Write the Docs is a global community of people who care about documentation. We currently:
Who can participate?
We encourage everyone working in areas related to documentation to complete this survey, no matter what country you live in, what level of skill or experience you possess, or what industry you operate in.
The questions are for people of all employment types: full-time or part-time, permanent or contract, employee or freelance/self-employed – or any combination thereof.
If you are currently unemployed, but have worked in a documentation-related role for at least part of the past year, we would like your contribution.
If you participated in a previous survey, but your salary has not changed since then, please still complete this year’s survey – median salaries are calculated using the current year’s data only.
What else do I need to know?
All responses are completely anonymous. In the interests of obtaining accurate and useful data for comparisons, most questions are required, but some have an “I’d prefer not to answer” option. We do not publish statistics for any demographic with less than 10 respondents (less than 30 in the case of 25th/75th percentile splits), to avoid accidental exposure of personally identifiable information.
Data gathered is used by the Write the Docs team internally for production of our report only, and is not shared with any third party.
With all of this in mind, we encourage everyone to answer as fully as possible.
The survey will be open until the end of 2025, and results will be made available – for everyone, for free – in 2026.