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Poll: Have you ever been assigned a project that you had already translated before?
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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A few times Mar 8, 2016

It happened recently - the same document from the same client. I told them about it, but they paid me anyway because the funds had already been allocated. (International organizations typically allot the funds before they assign a translation.)
 
Mario Freitas
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@ Michael Mar 9, 2016

Michael Harris wrote:

Mario Freitas wrote:

CURIOSITY: That's when I had an idea of how much the agencies take from us, or at least some of them, to do nothing but issuing an invoice. One agency charged $ 29.00 from the contractor I worked for (per page), and paid me $ 12.00 to translate (no revision). So they earned 60% to do nothing and paid me 40% to do all the job.


Come on Mario, I cannot imagine that much is left over from that 60% after all of the taxes / wages, etc have been paid. May seem a lot, but what I see from South America, you have really high taxes down there.....


The taxes for small companies in Brazil add up to about 15%. It's not that much. And they rarely ever have employees, except maybe a secretary. It's usually two or three partners who open a company to explore freelance translators. So, considering another 10% for general expenses and payroll, they still keep 35% net!

Don't tell me that's fair.

[Edited at 2016-03-09 04:45 GMT]
 
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