[Stc-ac] question about job titles

[Rose Norman]

A manager from a local company asked me this question, and agreed 
that I might post it to this list, since I don't have a good 
answer.  The question concerns job titles for writers and technical 
vs. non-technical pay scales:

 >We write for engineering users.  Several years ago, technical
 >writers at our company were changed from technical pay scales to
 >non-technical when that change was made industry-wide.   Because we
 >document extremely technical information, we hire writers also have
 >computer science (or related) and engineering degrees or
 >experience.  Our company uses the same 4 writing titles for software
 >writers, marketing writers and proposal writers.
 >
 >I'm wondering if a new set of "more technical" titles that clearly
 >specified and recognized the technical skills could be classified as
 >belonging to the technical pay grades.  Maybe an "information
 >developer"  track would help, for example.
 >
 >Does anyone know of any precedents or have advice on titles that
 >would enable us to be classified as technical by the industry
standards?

Thanks
Rose Norman
Director of Business and Technical Writing
UAHuntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
http://www.uah.edu/tc