At the end of 2017, the Statistical Register of Employment included 296 people (five more than a year before) who performed this occupation as their principal occupation and participated in compulsory social insurance. For comparison, at present the Slovene Writers’ Association has 317 members.
V Statistični register delovno aktivnega prebivalstva je bilo konec leta 2017 vpisanih 296 oseb (5 oseb več kot konec leta 2016), ki so opravljale ta poklic kot primarni in ki so bile vključene v obvezno socialno zavarovanje (za primerjavo: v Društvu slovenskih pisateljev je bilo lani včlanjenih 317 pisateljic in pisateljev).