WinAlign: how to set a rate per segment?
Thread poster: Natalya Zelikova
Natalya Zelikova
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Feb 15, 2006

I have been asked to give a quote for alignment job with WinAlign and the client asked me to set per segment rate instead of per hour rate.
Please advise how can I calculate it.
So far I know the number of segments (not words) and have source text for reference.


 
Sylvain Leray
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Calculate an average Feb 15, 2006

Hi,

If you know the number of segments and have the source texte, you should be able to calculate the average number of words per segment, provided you can count the words in the source text of course.

For example, you have 150 segments and the source text has 1500 words, then you have an average of 10 words par segment. You can then charge 10 times your rate per word for one segment.

I find it curious, though... alignment may be very cumbersome and I pref
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Hi,

If you know the number of segments and have the source texte, you should be able to calculate the average number of words per segment, provided you can count the words in the source text of course.

For example, you have 150 segments and the source text has 1500 words, then you have an average of 10 words par segment. You can then charge 10 times your rate per word for one segment.

I find it curious, though... alignment may be very cumbersome and I prefer to charge per hour.

HTH,
Sylvain
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Vito Smolej
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I have no experience in this regard... Feb 15, 2006

I have been asked to give a quote for alignment job with WinAlign


...and would be welcome to know how it turned out. WinAligning may be a horrible job to do...

Hint: check for false positives on segment separators (in one case I had colon appearing in the wrong places...)


 
Natalya Zelikova
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how to Feb 16, 2006

Sylvain Leray wrote:
For example, you have 150 segments and the source text has 1500 words, then you have an average of 10 words par segment. You can then charge 10 times your rate per word for one segment.


Well, I think it's too high to charge for simple alignment of a segment the same rate I would charge for its translation.

So I just calculated from my previous experience: divided quantity of segments in previous job by total number of hours - this gives me quantity of segments I do in one hour. And since I have my hourly rate, I can calculate rate per one segment.


 
Sylvain Leray
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OK Feb 16, 2006

Natalya Zelikova wrote:

Sylvain Leray wrote:
For example, you have 150 segments and the source text has 1500 words, then you have an average of 10 words par segment. You can then charge 10 times your rate per word for one segment.


Well, I think it's too high to charge for simple alignment of a segment the same rate I would charge for its translation.

So I just calculated from my previous experience: divided quantity of segments in previous job by total number of hours - this gives me quantity of segments I do in one hour. And since I have my hourly rate, I can calculate rate per one segment.


That's a good way too!
I see now that I was not clear enough in my posting : I meant your proofreading rate per word (mine is about 1/3 of my translation rate per word, though I prefer to charge per hour for proofreading too...).

Best regards,
Sylvain


 
Natalya Zelikova
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... Feb 16, 2006

Sylvain Leray wrote:
I meant your proofreading rate per word (mine is about 1/3 of my translation rate per word


The point is that the client doesn't need any proofreading so it's only a moment I need to connect one segment to another and the rate I got is lower than 10 times my proofreading rate...

Even when I had to join 2 segments or divide 1 into 2, it was really a moment to do this.


 


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