Rates
Agencies treat all their clients the same way: by charging per word (with no guarantee of editing attention), they tend to keep your costs high. Moreover, they underpay their translators who, therefore, have no motivation to spend any extra time or thought on your project. It’s a lose-lose situation for translator and client with the agency pocketing the profits for a rather disappointing outcome.
Whether it’s a translation or revision job, I treat each project individually. I’m convinced you, as my client, deserve a fair price as well as the guarantee of a translation so perfect it can go directly online or to press.
In my rates I charge:
- no single fixed price per word or page;
- no one price for all translations.
Ask me for an estimate, free of obligation!
I’m able to keep your costs low by factoring in your needs and offering you discounts on one or more of the following estimate items:
length of text
consignment date
further revision, proof/reading, etc., upon request
final audience or readership
Presentations, texts, letters for commercial or academic purposes
Type of calculation: hourly
Set rates: starting at €25.00/hour
Variables for the estimate: possibly the subjects, which may require research for specific terminology.
To receive estimate, please send the text in a digital format (word / PDF), specify consignment date and any revision service required.
Sworn translations**
Type of calculation: customised prices
Set rates: Reduced rates only for large volume of work
Variables for the estimate: Document type and length, urgency
To receive estimate, please send a scan of the document to translate
Revision, editing, and post-editing
Type of calculation: hourly
Set rates: starting at €25.00/hour
Variables for the estimate: Possibly the subjects, which may require research for specific terminology.
To receive estimate, please specify the kind of service required
Translation books, manuals, short stories, etc.
Type of calculation: editorial standard digital page (1,800 characters, spaces included) *
Set rates: No set rate, I’ll provide a fair overall fee to cover the project from start to finish
Variables for the estimate: possibly the subjects, which may require research for specific terminology.
To receive estimate, please send the text in a digital format (word / PDF) and specify target readership.
Translated, sworn, and legalized documents**
Type of calculation: customised prices
Set rates: Reduced rates only for large volume of work
Variables for the estimate: Document type and length, urgency
To receive estimate, please send a scan of the document to translate
* To give a general idea, the price of translating a book of 100 standard text pages starts from €1,200 (but don't confuse printed book page-layouts with editorial standard digital pages – 1800 characters, spaces included!)
** As a guideline, the translation of a typewritten page of about 220 words, with the revision included costs €30 to which you should add the cost of the sworn translation in court is €80 (tax stamps excluded). If the translation needs to be legalized or be stamped with an (Hague) Apostille, there will be an additional cost of €60.
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