Salary range for Crystal Reports Writer

[RenaG]

I hope I am not stepping outside some boundaries with this question. My employer is reevaluating my position and salary. I have done a search on the internet trying to find salary ranges for a Crystal Reports Writer but have come up empty. Would anybody mind sharing the salary range for this type of position? I would appreciate it. I probably need to know what part of the country (USA) you are in as well.

TIA!
~RLG

 

[kenhamady]

Unfortunately, positions as a full-time "Crystal Report Writer" are pretty rare. Out of all the CR users that I know I don't think I could name one. Most positions seem to combine CR with DB, analysis or programming skills. That might make it hard to do a comparison.

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[Turkbear]

Hi,
Where I worked we did have several folks whose main job was to meet with clients (from other sections of our agency)and determine a way to produce reports that provided them what they needed, including determining if publishing them ( with BOE) was a viable or needed add-on.

Their salary was controlled by state employment classifcations and they were usually a 3rd step Information Technology Specialist ( ITS 3, in civil-service speak)

They made less than private industry, usually @ 40-50 K in 2006




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[Madawc]

Crystal is a report-writing tool. The original idea was that users without IT skills can write basic Crystal reports. This is still sometimes the case where I work: but once it gets beyond simple collection, IT skills are needed and the business pass over such tasks to us. Or something they've done doesn't entirely work and mostly I rewrite it for them.

As kenhamady says, full-time Crystal programmers usually combine it with general analytical skills. But you could mention things in Crystal that do need specific IT skills to get right, things like left-outer or the use of subreports. (If you can't work these out for yourself then maybe your salary is not justified.)

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 11.5 with SQL and Windows XP

 

[RenaG]

Thank you all for your replies. I suspected that in most cases, the position wouldn't be just to write reports. In fact here, I have done Crystal Reports and Access db but the current title is Crystal Reports Writer. I googled for Crystal Report writer jobs and there were several but only one in the list I looked at gave any indication of salary. It was in NJ (which I am sure has a higher COL that I have here) and the range was 65K - 94K. But even the low end of 40k that you mentioned Turkbear is more than I currently make. I have been a programmer since 1985 so I have many skills beyond just writing simple Crystal Reports.

Thank you for your input! Other replies are still welcome.

Warmly,
~RLG