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I am fluent in important strategic and business languages. Any translator job offer I have recieved has always tried to pay people around $25 per hour but calcu
by iswu 5y ago
I am fluent in important strategic and business languages. Any translator job offer I have recieved has always tried to pay people around $25 per hour but calculated by the second with all downtime excluded.
If I worked in IT, my downtime could be spent learning new skills and getting paid to do it. Working as a translator and you have a take home pay of about $4 per hour as your downtime is not compensated, like a waiter without tips.
I am sure there are better translation gigs out there -- but the entire field has "avoid like the plague" written all over it.
- dylan604 5y agoIt's funny that the people wanting the work for hire want to pay by the hour, but typical translators charge by the word or page. Standard transcription service fees are similar. Transcribing a feature film can much less expensive than a half hour talking head segment. Talking heads don't stop talking where features have a lot of cinematic/dramatic moments without dialog. A translator would need the same thing PLUS the actual translation.
- iswu 5y agoI believe it. Anyone making it a long term profession needs to be really good and also really aggressive about their pricing, otherwise it just wouldn't be a livable income.