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Highly elitist translation agencies
Thread poster: Inge Schumacher
Lefteris Kritikakis
Lefteris Kritikakis
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Ok, so let it be on the record then... Jan 11

Christopher Schröder wrote:
I don’t work with agencies much but one of the world’s three largest agencies regularly pays me a $55 minimum for odd sentences. I charge double for weekend work. I haven’t worked at 12 cents a word since the 90s. Today I worked at twice that.


You're right! And it should have been this way across the board, for inflation alone.
Let it be on the record that you are currently working at around $0.24/word and $55 min charge, and double on weekends (your words), which roughly means about $200,000 annually without much pressure, and I'm just a negative loser.

Imagine the majority in here who think that 0.12/word is "too much, hard to believe"... I think you should be advising them first, not me.

Thanks


 
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