Rate per character Thread poster: Inez Ulrich
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Inez Ulrich 
Germany
Local time: 03:18
Member (2016)
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Hi,
I have a client who wants to pay per character - has anybody experience with this? I have no clue if hos rate is acceptable or not: $5.38 per 1000 characters with spaces for proofreading/editing
Can anybody help?
Thanks a lot!
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| usually 55 characters per line, roughly 7.5 words per line | Mar 26, 2019 |
That means your client would pay you a little less than 0.04 $ per word.
Best regards,
Christian
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Inez Ulrich
Germany
Local time: 03:18
Member (2016)
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Thanks a lot, Christian - but what does characters with spaces mean for the calculation?
[Edited at 2019-03-26 08:09 GMT]
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ibz
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| Characters with spaces | Mar 26, 2019 |
Characters with spaces means just every character you type, i.e. words as well as spaces.
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Inez Ulrich
Germany
Local time: 03:18
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 02:18
Member (2007)
English
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| Use MS-Word's statistics | Mar 26, 2019 |
The average number of characters per word will be different for each language. I'd advise you to take any text you've worked on - in the language of this file, and look at the statistics in the MS-Word review pane. That will enable you to see the correlation between the number of words and the number of characters with/without spaces, for that text. Once you get a feel for the average, you'll have a feel for what's an acceptable rate. TBH, the only thing that matters is earning a decent rate for... See more The average number of characters per word will be different for each language. I'd advise you to take any text you've worked on - in the language of this file, and look at the statistics in the MS-Word review pane. That will enable you to see the correlation between the number of words and the number of characters with/without spaces, for that text. Once you get a feel for the average, you'll have a feel for what's an acceptable rate. TBH, the only thing that matters is earning a decent rate for your time. You could quote for every "E" if you could be bothered to calculate how much each one should cost the client. . ▲ Collapse
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| That's not much! | Mar 26, 2019 |
If you are accustomed to rates per line, let's do a bit of math: 1000 characters means about 18 lines of 55 characters each; so the rate per line will be less than $0.30 per line or less than $9.00 per page of 30 lines. That doesn't seem to be much for Germany.
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Inez Ulrich
Germany
Local time: 03:18
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Thank you, both, for your input. I haven't worked for this client so far, but I also had the feeling it wouldn't be enough. I usually charge around € 0,04/word for proofreading, so this would be way below that rate.
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Inez Ulrich
Germany
Local time: 03:18
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Vladimir Morozov wrote:
If you are accustomed to rates per line, let's do a bit of math: 1000 characters means about 18 lines of 55 characters each; so the rate per line will be less than $0.30 per line or less than $9.00 per page of 30 lines. That doesn't seem to be much for Germany.
that would be for proofreading, not translation, but it is still pretty little.
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