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For future reference what are your rates?
Thread poster: Rafa Alba
Christine Andersen
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Member (2003)
Danish to English
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Average rates and the Proz.com rate calculator Mar 7, 2021

There is a rate calculator here, which will give you a few suggestions, although you may not get a realistic result from it directly:
https://www.proz.com/translator-rates-calculator/
(You can find it under Tools > Proz.com tools > Rates Calculator)

You can check average rates for different language pairs here:... See more
There is a rate calculator here, which will give you a few suggestions, although you may not get a realistic result from it directly:
https://www.proz.com/translator-rates-calculator/
(You can find it under Tools > Proz.com tools > Rates Calculator)

You can check average rates for different language pairs here:
https://search.proz.com/employers/rates?source_lang=dan&target_lang=eng&disc_spec_id=¤cy=eur&submit=Submit
(To find it, click Tools > Proz.com tools > Community rates )

Not all members and user of this site state their rates, and may who do choose not to show them. The stated rates are used to filter job notifications, and I assume to calculate the rates here.

I do not show my rates on my profile, because they vary. I charge a minimum for very small jobs, and I usually give reductions for repetitions when I can use Trados. Different clients send different types of jobs, and I charge more for complicated legal documents, for example, than for more straightforward press releases intended for the general public.

I charge extra if there is a lot of formatting, or if space is limited - my target language often takes up more space than the source, and I may have to spend time reformulating the translation if it has to be squeezed in around graphics.

Where machine translation takes over the routine work, human translation is tailored, and every translation is unique. You can some basic guidelines, but the rate you charge should reflect the effort that goes into it.

As a beginner, you may have to work very hard, but in the end if your translation serves the client's purpose, then it has the same value for the client as the work of any other translator, so you should charge full price.

As a freelancer you do not earn more by putting up your rates for the same work. You gather experience that helps you to work faster, and you take training or practice, so that you are qualified for more demanding tasks, or specialist areas that are more highly paid than general work.
When you find you are offered more work that you can take on, you have to choose between clients and jobs, so naturally, you take the ones that are most attractive to you. These are not always the ones with the highest rates at first glance, but the ones where you work best and use your time to the best advantage.
Clients come and go, but you can drop the ones who pay least or waste your time as you find new clients who pay better.

Good luck!
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