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From our June release: ProZ.com's online rates calculator Thread poster: Enrique Cavalitto
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Dinny 
Greece
Local time: 03:56
Italian to Danish
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| Nice future planning tool! | Jun 8, 2006 |
Everything went fine as long as I tried to increase my holidays per year, the outcome was more or less the rate I'm charging now. It's just that I'm quite happy with my 6 weeks holidays a year, living in Crete you don't have the urge to go to Copa Cabana. BUT when I tried to insert my actual goal - to work less hours per week - ooops, my agencies should be prepared for a nasty surprise! Just cutting my working week to 30 hours instead of 40 ment having to increase my rates 25 percent. It should ... See more Everything went fine as long as I tried to increase my holidays per year, the outcome was more or less the rate I'm charging now. It's just that I'm quite happy with my 6 weeks holidays a year, living in Crete you don't have the urge to go to Copa Cabana. BUT when I tried to insert my actual goal - to work less hours per week - ooops, my agencies should be prepared for a nasty surprise! Just cutting my working week to 30 hours instead of 40 ment having to increase my rates 25 percent. It should be obvious even without this tool, but it's just that I actually never took the time before to think about the mechanism!
This tool is a very nice eye-opener! ▲ Collapse
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| Made me think... | Jun 8, 2006 |
... of going on rejecting all low-paid job offers.
Test results are also extremely interesting
Good tool, very good!
Cheers!
Piotr
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Monika Coulson
Local time: 18:56
Member (2001)
English to Albanian
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SITE LOCALIZER | Great tool for planning | Jun 8, 2006 |
Exactly Piotr,
It helps set your vision and by doing this, you know exactly where you stand.
Monika
Piotr Wargan wrote: Made me think...... of going on rejecting all low-paid job offers. Test results are also extremely interesting Good tool, very good! Cheers! Piotr
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| it works, it really does!!!:) | Jun 8, 2006 |
I have just had a chance to play with it a bit, and it seems to work just fine. Thank you for yet another excellent tool on proz.com!!!:)
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Paola Giardina
Argentina
Local time: 21:56
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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| An new tool to improve our professional exercise | Jun 8, 2006 |
I've just tried this new tool and It works.
It makes me think my rates are low.
It will help me to take everything into account before quoting for a job next time, such as my broad band internet connection, paper, printing and things like that.
Nice idea!
Thanks!
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| I am definitely NOT charging enough! | Jun 8, 2006 |
Now, all I need is a calculator on how to get the required number of words to translate.
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| Can be useful | Jun 8, 2006 |
Thanks for this new tool. It may be very useful especially for those who dont know the rates, or they can not plan thei first year.
It may not give exact results but it definately helps to low rated freelancers to realize the reality of life.
So far I would call this tool as an eye opener!!
Thanks a lot.
Nizam
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Magan
Local time: 01:56
English to Spanish
I agree. It is really easy to use.
The bad side is that makes you conscious of how badly income result you get with your current rates at the end of the year, without being aware of.
Yes, I agree with the mayority. We need to raise our rates.
Who was talking about those jobs at 0.05 Euros? Having a look at the calculator makes you realise how ridiculous it is accepting that kind of rates.
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Vito Smolej
Germany
Local time: 02:56
Member (2004)
English to Slovenian
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SITE LOCALIZER | entering random numbers and it works? Just a minute, think it over... | Jun 11, 2006 |
One thing: we randomize possibly 'the decimals', but not the order of magnitude. Has anybody entered 4 hours a week, or 400 hours work load? No? I thought so.
Same applies to the rest of entries. And the number coming out? Well, "it is in the ballpark". Of course, what did you expect?!
But ... I'll raise my prices anyhow
Vito
[Edited at 2006-06-11 18:57]
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Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 21:56
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
| INTERESTING AND USEFUL | Oct 8, 2006 |
Hello everyone:
I have just tried the tool and it's great! It helped me discover I am neither undercharging nor overcharging.
Just the happy medium I hoped to achieve!
Thanks to those who worked on it!
Monica
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