standard rates for written translation

[Vera Beljakova]

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The norm is to charge per word.
Some charge per character.

Look on the internet at other translation websites....Paul Gallagher is one famous translator.

Norm is per original text because otherwise you can spin it out
and become very wordy.  Besides, an English text will always be
shorter by at least 10%.

However, Word will do you a word count into the translated language, and therefore it is quicker and easier to charge for what you can see in the word count field.

Russians and Germans are verbose, English are not.

Page size and illustrations are immaterial, since you are not translating pictures, only captions.

Regards,
Vera Beljakova
Johannesburg


 

 ----- Original Message ------
 From:Inna Caron
 Sent:Monday, November 26, 2007 20:00
 To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU; 
 Subject:[SEELANGS] standard rates for written translation
 


 
 
 
 Dear SEELANGers, 



When you have been contracted to do a commercial translation, is the payment 
subject to agreement between the parties, or is there a more or less 
standard rate per page of written translation? If so, 

1) Do you charge per page of the original or translated text? 

2) What is the format of the chargeable page (say, in Word) - is it 
single- or double-spaced? 11 or 12 pt font size? 

3) If the pay is per original text page, and there is a photograph or a 
table taking up some space, do you still charge as for a full page, or do 
you extract the text portions and calculate the number of pages sans all the 
illustrations? 


Thank you very much in advance for any information. 



Inna Caron, 

Ohio State University 



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