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Rates per minute Thread poster: Marie Louise Åbom
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Min Xuanping 
China
Local time: 22:01
Member
English to Chinese
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| My daily subtitling capacity is 25 minutes, how about yours? | Mar 28, 2022 |
As a Chinese, I am not happy with this rate as well, but recently I lost a lot of work because of my insistence on the similar rate. If we all insist on a fair price, we can change the adverse situation. We need say "no" to translation companies when we must. However, no company would pay for our low efficiency, that is why I am asking for your capacity.
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Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
| @Min Xuanping | Mar 28, 2022 |
Taking from a thread we just had recently, I have learned that discussing our rates in public may not be a very good idea. I think the same can be applied to our daily translation capacities.
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| And what about the rates for subtitling review? | Apr 22, 2022 |
I usually offer proofreading rates that are half the rates for translation. So what about subtitling review? As the rates are already very difficult to negociate, I guess half price for review is very low.
Any experience on this?
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 16:01
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Subtitle review rates | Jul 11, 2022 |
Clément Marquet wrote:
I usually offer proofreading rates that are half the rates for translation. So what about subtitling review? As the rates are already very difficult to negociate, I guess half price for review is very low.
Any experience on this?
Yes, half your translation rate sounds fair. However this strongly depends on the quality of the subtitles. If you have to adjust just about every time code, or if there are too many misconception in the translation itself, then an hourly review rate is advisable instead of a per minute rate.
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Julie Høj
Denmark
Local time: 16:01
English to Danish
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| Not a joke - unfortunately. | Jul 13, 2022 |
I recently received an enquiry regarding an ENG->DA subtitling project with a budget of $35/hr.
Not per hour worked, per hour of audio, working out to a grand total of $0.583 per minute. I honestly do not understand how/why they thought that this would fly.
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jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 10:01
Member (2005)
English to Chinese
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| It is a joke | Jul 13, 2022 |
Julie Høj wrote:
I recently received an enquiry regarding an ENG->DA subtitling project with a budget of $35/hr.
Not per hour worked, per hour of audio, working out to a grand total of $0.583 per minute. I honestly do not understand how/why they thought that this would fly.
It will take 20 minutes of my work time to translate one video minute, which means I will make less than $1.8 per hour working for this client.
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| quote for subtitling from srt file | Aug 11, 2022 |
A nice day to everyone,
I am a professional translator but I have translated subtitles several years ago. Now a client is asking for my quotes for translating from German into Serbian:
a.) from a SRT as text file
b.) only from a SRT file (with text and time) and
c.) for a Hardcoding?
I already explained that I can offer translation without time coding and now I am not sure how my reply/offer should look like...
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Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
| Subtitling rates | Aug 13, 2022 |
Zorica Mihailovic wrote:
a.) from a SRT as text file
b.) only from a SRT file (with text and time) and
c.) for a Hardcoding?
a) I have never been asked to work on this kind of assignment before, so can’t help you with that. Sorry.
b) It would be your rate to translate subtitles from a master template.
c) I would add 20% surcharge to my standard rate.
Is it fair? Maybe, maybe not. Burning in subtitles to the video can be quite taxing to your hardware, especially so if the video output quality needs to be in full HD and above. It’ll draw more power and there might be an increase in your monthly bill. Also, if you’re doing this often, it’ll shorten the lifespan of your hardware. Put all these operational costs to your conditions, then you can calculate a fair rate for this service.
I suggest you to ask this question in this megathread as well. This is where the cooler ProZians hang out.
[Edited at 2022-08-14 07:06 GMT]
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Aristeu Filho
Brazil
Local time: 23:01
English to Portuguese
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| The joke has evolved. | Aug 29, 2022 |
Thayenga wrote:
2.50$ per minute is a joke. The absolute minimum should be 5 - 6$, that is, at least twice as much.
I wars trying to find a fair rate to work, but it seems almost impossible.
And today I've received an offer from $0.75 per minute, and I'm still trying to figure out whether to cry or laugh.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 16:01
Member (2009)
English to German
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| That's a good one | Nov 25, 2022 |
Aristeu Filho wrote: Thayenga wrote:
2.50$ per minute is a joke. The absolute minimum should be 5 - 6$, that is, at least twice as much. I wars trying to find a fair rate to work, but it seems almost impossible. And today I've received an offer from $0.75 per minute, and I'm still trying to figure out whether to cry or laugh.
I suggest you laugh until you cry. This is not a joke, this rate is plain ridiculous. When receiving such insulting offers and I feel like it, I reply that I can unfortunately not afford to work for this rate and still survive. Of course I never receive a reply. Good, I'd say because it keeps me from wasting my time.
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Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
The most annoying thing is that some of these agencies refused to disclose their rates before you passed their poorly-designed tests. And after you indeed passed those tests, they ended up offering you peanuts for tight deadlines. What a big waste of my time. 
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