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What technical writers make
Median
$75,000
Lower end
$56,000
Upper end
$111,000
Job Bank's national median is $36.06 an hour, about $75,000 a year at 40 hours a week, and the high is $53.37. The floor here is higher than for other writing jobs: the low end is $27.00 an hour, against $25.48 for writers and authors and $20 for editors.