How much to charge an agency for testing potential translators? Thread poster: Gerardo Bensi
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I'm an Argentine freelance translator. One of the Argentine agencies I work for asked me to assess a new potential translator. I gave the applicant two texts of between 312 / 340 words, one to translate into English and another one into Spanish. Both texts were technical (IT - Oil & Gas). I have not seen the translations yet; the applicant is due to e-mail them in two days.
The agency wants to know how much I will charge them for this assessment service. Do you have any idea of wha... See more I'm an Argentine freelance translator. One of the Argentine agencies I work for asked me to assess a new potential translator. I gave the applicant two texts of between 312 / 340 words, one to translate into English and another one into Spanish. Both texts were technical (IT - Oil & Gas). I have not seen the translations yet; the applicant is due to e-mail them in two days.
The agency wants to know how much I will charge them for this assessment service. Do you have any idea of what the standard rates for this are? I would appreciate any comments.
Thank you very much.
Gerardo ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Do they want you to revise the translations? | Feb 17, 2006 |
I asssume you have a good relationship with the agency: I did the same thing recently for one of my clients, and just charged them for the revision.
If they're not asking you to revise the translation, I'd charge them depending on how long it takes you to assess it - or if it's a very good client, I wouldn't charge them anything at all.
| | | | Gerardo Bensi 
Local time: 00:07
English to Spanish
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Mary-Helene:
Thanks for your advice; yes, I'm supposed to revise the translations; I had thought of chargin per hour.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Gerardo
| | | | | I'd say by the hour | Feb 17, 2006 |
Hola Gerardo.
If they wanted me to revise, assess and make a little report about the translation, I'd charge per hour.
Éxito,
Jerónimo
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| Deal with the financial aspect first | Feb 18, 2006 |
The comments that others have made are very good. However, the next time this happens, you should handle this in advance. It should be clear what they want you to do. (e.g., do they want you merely to highlight the mispelled words or correct the spelling as well?) and how much is to be paid. (They aren't going to be too happy if you submit a bill for five hours work to revise these two tests, but I imagine that before you did that, you'd send a message back to your client along the lines of ... See more The comments that others have made are very good. However, the next time this happens, you should handle this in advance. It should be clear what they want you to do. (e.g., do they want you merely to highlight the mispelled words or correct the spelling as well?) and how much is to be paid. (They aren't going to be too happy if you submit a bill for five hours work to revise these two tests, but I imagine that before you did that, you'd send a message back to your client along the lines of "this person is not very good. Shall I redo it?") They may propose a flat fee. That can be negotiated. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Gerardo Bensi
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Hello, Paul.
Thanks for your comments, I find them very useful. It was clear from the beginning that I was only supposed to assess the translations. Charging per hour seems to be the best thing to do.
Regards,
Gerardo
| | | | Gerardo Bensi
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Hi, Jerónimo.
Thanks for replying. That's what I think I'll do.
Éxitos para ti también.
Gerardo
| | | | Roomy Naqvy
India
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| my experience | Feb 19, 2006 |
There is this agency... we had never worked earlier. They contacted me to evaluate one of their translator and while they asked me to evaluate their translator, what they were actually doing was to test me!! And they are paying me 20 Euro per hour and I need to bill them for 2 hours.
Also, their conditions and terms state that they would pay bank charges their side for the international transfer to India.
Now, that is being truly professional.
KudoZ to this... See more There is this agency... we had never worked earlier. They contacted me to evaluate one of their translator and while they asked me to evaluate their translator, what they were actually doing was to test me!! And they are paying me 20 Euro per hour and I need to bill them for 2 hours.
Also, their conditions and terms state that they would pay bank charges their side for the international transfer to India.
Now, that is being truly professional.
KudoZ to this company.
Roomy ▲ Collapse
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