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As a freelance translator, how do you price your translation services?

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Date Posted: 2013/05/15
WAEL KALAJI
by WAEL KALAJI , مترجم , ال

It mainly depends on the genre of the text as well as language level.

It depends either by words or by pages if you are freelancing it's more related to WHOM you are working with...
Translation is too tricky, sometimes you have to price by the time it takes to finish the job...

Asmaa Ibrahim
by Asmaa Ibrahim , Technical accountant , Willis Towers Watson

Depends on the words count

Dina Gamal
by Dina Gamal , Lay Examiner , The Royal College of Surgeons

Based on genre & word count.
I think the common rate now is 0.05 Euro per word.

I only follow this rules : - I don't need to get all the business I quote, I don't fear losing the assignment because I estimate that my price is too high.
Take your time, estimate the needed time to do the job and to do it correctly, if your client is accepting all your quotes, then may be they are too low.

سيوف عرابي
by سيوف عرابي , مترجمة , الملتقى العربي لناشري كتب الأطفال

Mainly I calculate price by word but eventually adapt the offer to be per page and compatible with market demand.

Emily Doong
by Emily Doong , English Trainer , Wall Street English

I'm an Interpreter, and I price based on time commitment, whether there'll be travel involved, and the amount of new materials I need to learn.

Omar Hassan Said
by Omar Hassan Said , Senior Translator &Editor , Saudi Binladin Group

first of all , it depends on type or material to be translated, second on targeted deadline as urgent projects render higher fees,third on the entity or body for which translation shall delivered ,e.g multinational company versus local firms.

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