/advocacy-outreach/assembly-bill-5-what-now/ The Voice of Interpreters and Translators Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /advocacy-outreach/assembly-bill-5-what-now/#comment-709 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:43:34 +0000 https://www.ata-chronicle.online/?p=12346#comment-709 “Translators and interpreters themselves are educated, highly experienced, highly trained, and often certified individuals performing highly specialized and professional services, who average $40/hour in the private marketplace.” << After all those lofty descriptors (all of them true), why you come down for a landing on $40/hour? How underwhelming and discouraging! Freelancers must pay for their own vacation, sick leave, disability insurance, office equipment, health insurance, employer share of Social Security and Medicare, AND retirement. That means charging at least double what you would expect to earn as an in-house employee with benefits. In-N-Out Burger will pay you $20/hour with benefits, and you don't even need to know how to use Trados. We do the profession a great disservice by setting our sights so low.

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