“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
Woody Allen
According to a survey of rates paid to translators in Belgium published in an article in Slator on October 24, 2014:“The average monthly gross revenue for translators and interpreters in Belgium is EUR 3,400.69 (USD 3,942.67) and EUR 3,796.87 (USD 4,401.99), respectively, the survey showed.
Aside from average monthly gross revenues for translators and interpreters, the survey also came to a few other key conclusions.
The average rates paid by translation agencies are EUR 0.0995 (USD 0.11) / word and EUR 39.09 (USD 45.27) / hour. In comparison, direct clients of translation pay EUR 0.13325 (USD 0.15) / word and EUR 54.68 (USD 63.32) / hour. Direct clients paid the highest for financial translation, while agencies paid more for scientific / medical translations.”
I will not discuss in today’s post rates paid to interpreters because I…
View original post 1,301 more words
Translator Power 