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| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 798 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 820 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 851 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 844 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 838 | 0.00% |
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $78,223 | $37.61 | +2.5% |
| 2025 | $76,336 | $36.70 | +1.4% |
| 2024 | $75,289 | $36.20 | +1.3% |
| 2023 | $74,325 | $35.73 | +1.5% |
| 2022 | $73,193 | $35.19 | --0.6% |
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 138 | 20% |
| 2 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 363 | 6% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 351 | 5% |
| 4 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 66 | 5% |
| 5 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 365 | 4% |
| 6 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 210 | 4% |
| 7 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 171 | 4% |
| 8 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 127 | 4% |
| 9 | Delaware | 961,939 | 35 | 4% |
| 10 | Vermont | 623,657 | 27 | 4% |
| 11 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 22 | 4% |
| 12 | California | 39,536,653 | 990 | 3% |
| 13 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 352 | 3% |
| 14 | North Carolina | 10,273,419 | 259 | 3% |
| 15 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 208 | 3% |
| 16 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 168 | 3% |
| 17 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 86 | 3% |
| 18 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 57 | 3% |
| 19 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 32 | 3% |
| 20 | Alaska | 739,795 | 21 | 3% |
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hinesville | 1 | 3% | $61,969 |
University of South Florida
Dr. Wilma Davidson: All businesses need good writers. You can work remotely as a freelancer or an employee without concern about where your employer is located. Technology makes it easy for an excellent writer to write productively from anywhere. Naturally, if you wish to enter a field like PR or Advertising or Editing/Publishing, you might want to live in a large city where major firms are located. However, right that advice might have been a decade ago, it no longer applies. If you'd like to be a technical writer, there is an advantage to being close to the engineers you may be working with as you write their manuals, but that can be handled-and already is-being handled remotely.