Freelance Portuguese Translator

Pricing & Payment

Mother Tongue	European Portuguese	pt-PT
Language Pairs	English into Portuguese	en>pt-PT
	Spanish into Portuguese	es>pt-PT
	French into Portuguese	fr>pt-PT
	Italian into Portuguese	it>pt-PT

Pricing

As a general rule, I produce estimates for time and cost considering each project’s requirements and specificities and upon inspection of the source files, a requisite of paramount importance when aiming at having a good sense of the project's real workload (e.g., the terminological research effort it will require).

Nonetheless, it is common practice to agree on a flat rate for ongoing collaborations with notable monthly volumes and/or for a particular end client.

The estimate will be contingent on several factors, such as:

• Project volume
• Time requirements & constraints
• Statistical text redundancy
• Technical complexity
• Terminological density
• Source files format
• Layout intricacy
• Requirement for the usage of a specific CAT tool
• Existence & quality of translation memories
• Existence & quality of glossaries/terminological databases
• Existence & quality of reference/support materials

The invoice will be issued on the date of delivery and payment is expected to be done within the following 45 days, through wire transfer (preferred method, to an EU bank account), skrill or paypal.

For submitting an estimate request or requesting information regarding my localisation (Website/Software), Project Coordination, Audio Transcription, Video Editing, Voice-Over or Subtitling services please send me an email including the source files (or representative samples of these) and the applicable aforelisted information.

Minimum Rates

The table below shows my minimum rates for Translation, Technical Translation and Proofreading/Editing/Review services.

Please bear in mind that these are rates per target word and provided as a mere reference for budgeting purposes, since it is seldom the case that a project's characteristics allow me to charge my minimum rate.

Service	Language Pair	Rates starting at
Translation	English > Portuguese	€ 0.08
Translation	Spanish > Portuguese	€ 0.08
Translation	French > Portuguese	€ 0.08
Translation	Italian > Portuguese	€ 0.08
Technical translation	English > Portuguese	€ 0.085
Technical translation	Spanish > Portuguese	€ 0.085
Technical translation	French > Portuguese	€ 0.085
Technical translation	Italian > Portuguese	€ 0.085
Proofreading/Editing/Review	English > Portuguese	€ 0.03
Proofreading/Editing/Review	Spanish > Portuguese	€ 0.03
Proofreading/Editing/Review	French > Portuguese	€ 0.03
Proofreading/Editing/Review	Italian > Portuguese	€ 0.03

Rates per target word.

Translation Memory Discounts

Language Pair	No Match	Rep.	100%	95-99%	85-94%	75-84%	50-74%
EN>PT-PT	100%	20%	20%	30%	60%	80%	90%
FR>PT-PT	100%	20%	20%	30%	60%	80%	90%
IT>PT-PT	100%	20%	20%	30%	60%	80%	90%
ES>PT-PT	100%	20%	20%	30%	60%	80%	90%

The tables shows base rate factors.