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Re: Too weird a request? (Sample doc group budgets)

Subject: Re: Too weird a request? (Sample doc group budgets)
From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
To: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:18:41 -0500

I don't think it's a weird request, just one that's hard to respond to. Companies tend to be pretty close-mouthed about budgets and such, so real numbers are almost impossible to pass along.

In my experience, doc budgets are usually comprised primarily of the salaries of the writers, with extra funds for travel, training, equipment, software, etc. I have never in 20+ years been given a budget based on that of the group my team supported. Raises - if any - were generally a percentage of the salaries of the writers and it was up to me to disperse it equitably.

I don't know what else to say. I could work up hypothetical numbers, but then, so could anyone based on the scenario as outlined above.


My 2¢,

John Garison





Nancy Allison wrote:

I'm not seeing everyone clamoring at once to tell me about sample doc
department budgets. Can anyone think of any way I could see a few, or is
that just too strange a request? (I'm a contractor, currently looking for
work, so I don't have a boss I can simply ask!)
--Nancy
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