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Specialties that raise your pay

• Technical editing

  Software documentation, engineering manuals, standards. Steady, corporate and well paid.

• Medical and scientific editing

  Journals, drug companies and research institutes. Needs a science background, pays for it.

• Developmental editing

  Working on structure and argument with an author before the sentences matter. The hardest kind and the best paid in books.

• Video and newsletter editing

  Where most new editing jobs actually are, because that is where audiences went.