Hi,

Recently, I have been offered a job to translate a over 20 pages report from Chinese to English for an association. I am not a full time translator. Previously, I have helped the association to translate several times, but that was just one or two pages each time, so I did not charge them for that. For this report, as the volume is big (20+pages). I would like to have some return for the time and effort that I'm gonna spend on it.

For qualification, I hold a degree but its not related to translation. They have given me 3 weeks to do the task and asked for a quotation.

I am not sure how should I charge (by page? by word?) and how much can I charge them. Kindly advice.

I understand for those approved translators they charged between RM80 to RM150 per page for legal documents.

my friend is freelancer.

he does this around rm70 per page.

how much you got from translating 1~2 pages that time? just use that rate to apply on this.

normally they charge at per page of translation (not the original material)
they set the font and spacing (normally at double spacing)

Hi, per page of source doc or translated doc?

per page.

he even charges rm30 per page for proof-reading.

Thanks a lot, i think i will charge RM50 per page, as i am not professional and those are my parents friends.

This got me thinking. How do you become a certified translator in malaysia anyway?
If you dont mind me asking.

I am a full time freelance translator.
The price is normally determined by the subject.
Specialised subjects demand higher payment.

Hi,

Can I get you friends P/N for free lance translator purposes for The Everly Putrajaya?

Thank you

Hi,

Can I get you friends P/N for free lance translator purposes for The Everly Putrajaya?

Thank you

I'm not sure if I get your meaning.

There is no fix price going on in Malaysia for translation rates. It seems like translation services in Malaysia are getting complicated day by day. Some translators charge higher as per their profile or sometime they charge higher if they already have so much work. Translators and translation companies keep varying their prices because of all above mentioned factors.

Hello,

Greetings!

There is no fix price for translators in Malaysia but

Well, in order to determine the translation rate per hour you should take several factors into consideration. The first one is of course how much you charge per word. This factor depends on your translation quality and on your experience. The second one is how much you can translate in an hour. For example, if you are an experienced translator your rate would be around $ 0.2 per word. If you can translate 200 words an hour then your with is 40$ per hour. However, if you can translate 400 words in an hour then your worth is 80$ an hour.

There are more things you need to take into account. Read this for more details: https://translatehub.org/average-translation-rates/