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Straight corporate translations are 10c a word for down and dirty, 15 - 20 for good, up to 50 for very specialist technical. Book translators in Finland are very underpaid - maybe 5 - 15c a word max.

Original copywriting is almost impossible to price. I've done stuff up to € 100 a word for finely tuned stuff, but the work's paid in hours not in words.

"It'll take me two week to do you a 2 minute presentation, a couple of days for the 10 minute presentation - but I can do the 1 hour version while you go to lunch"

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 04:46:08 PM EST
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Indeed.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jul 14th, 2009 at 04:53:20 PM EST
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