Daily translation work: any labor-coded volume limits? Initiator des Themas: Ex-cadet
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My employer and I have had a dispute: is there any specific volume I should translate within my 8-hours workday? Any \"total words\" or \"total pages\" rates? We are in Russia, and I would very much appreciate comments from those who might have been previously employed by the VTsP Translations Centre.
Rumors are, UN translators MAY not take up more than (so-and-so) written work per day. That right?
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That very much depends on what you\'re translating. My personal record in one day is 9,500 words (thank you Déjà Vu!), but I also have days of 2,000 words or even less (because of the subject or because the weather is too nice to work  ). I\'d say, for an 8-hour day and proofreading included, 3,000 to 3,500 words is a nice average (500 words per hour + proofreading and corrections).
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Joeri
| | | | Jeannie Graham 
Vereinigtes Königreich
Local time: 09:00
Deutsch > Englisch
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As an ex-translation manager, we usually estimated around 2,000 words a day translation and 8,000 words review for most languages. Japanese and Chinese are considerably less.
Again, depends a lot on subject and very importantly, the quality of the original text!
hope this helps
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Englisch > Polnisch
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Steffen Pollex (X)
Local time: 10:00
Englisch > Deutsch
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For myself, I have established a workload of maximum 2,000-2,500 words per day. This is based on own experience, and I always state it when bidding or making an offer to an agency or client. Hardly can I believe that people are able to deliver decent translation of up to 3,000 or 4,000 words a day as sometimes stated.
BTW, my languages are, most likely, yours, too - Russian, English, German.
Steffen
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I have friends who work for the translation dept. of the UN offices in Geneva and NY, and for UNESCO. They all say that they\'re \'allowed (mandated)\' to translate about 8 pages a day, or roughly 2,500 words.
| | | | Steffen Pollex (X)
Local time: 10:00
Englisch > Deutsch
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| Roughly, one page per hour is my experience, too. | Jun 27, 2002 |
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On 2002-06-27 13:22, marcushm wrote:
I have friends who work for the translation dept. of the UN offices in Geneva and NY, and for UNESCO. They all say that they\'re \'allowed (mandated)\' to translate about 8 pages a day, or roughly 2,500 words.
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Local time: 10:00
Französisch > Deutsch
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Evert DELOOF-SYS
Belgien
Local time: 10:00
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Englisch > Niederländisch
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| 2,000 to 2,500 words on average | Jun 27, 2002 |
I definitely go with Kalimeh, Jacek, Marcus and Steffen here.
While you may have days of 3 or 4000 or even more words, a good average would be 2,000 to 2,500 words for translation and about 8,000 for editing (provided the translator did a good job).
And a lot still depends on both the languages and the subject matter you\'re dealing with.
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