Throughline

Creative and communications

Technical Writer in the United States

56 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 56 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree35%
  • Bachelor’s degree33%
  • Some college, no degree16%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 27-3042.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$57,440
10th percentile
$90,390
median
$145,270
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anduril Industries · Infojini Inc · Idealforce LLC · Saronic · 360 IT Professionals · Artech Information System · Ask IT Consulting · Collabera · Integrated Resources Inc · Intuitive Surgical · USM · vTech Solution · Allen Control Systems · Blink Health · Ethos Life · Fivetran · Pinterest · Qualdoc · Ridgeline · Scale AI · Skild AI · Stem Xpert · System Canada Technologies · Walmart · Wiz

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