Interestingly, as someone who worked as an audio engineer for 8 years, engineering for audiobooks is very poorly paid. The studio I negotiated with (one that re

Interestingly, as someone who worked as an audio engineer for 8 years, engineering for audiobooks is very poorly paid. The studio I negotiated with (one that record some very well known titles) pay all their engineers by the _finished_ hour. So all the added production work for a poor reader falls on the editor. I spoke to some friends who had done work for the same studio to find out what typical production times were for a quick-working editor, then quickly moved on.