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Wonder how much a VR editor is underpaid? - B52
Posted: Jul 05, 2013
check this out. This is what proofreaders make:
http://www.theproofreaders.com/pricing.htm
An FYI - 65-character line has an estimated 5 words.
That totally pisses me off. - mt2
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I must be missing it. Where does it show what proofreaders make? All I see - is what the clients are being charged. nm
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Better question - Is VR editing paying even half of that? - Really
[ In Reply To ..]No way - not even close. Add in that MT VR editing is more difficult than anything proofreaders 'edit.'
What these people are proofing is not medical or technical. It is simple sentence structure, word spelling, and noting when to start a new paragraph. It is nothing even remotely close to the difficulty VR editors do on a daily basis.
Proofreaders work as ICs and from experience I'll tell you they never work for less than a penny and a half a word.
When I worked for MedQuist back in the day, they were paying me approx. 1/3 - what they were charging clients.
[ In Reply To ..]I was making 8.5 for straight, and they were apparently charging clients up to 24 cpl. So the above listing of client rates doesn't mean anything to me in terms of what those proofreaders might actually be making themselves.
I also think the degree of expertise that the above requires is being underestimated. Most medical reports I've encountered don't even show an understanding of how compound sentences should be punctuated, while I'm sure the proofreaders through that company have to possess at least a BA degree level of knowledge of punctuation and grammar. Their work includes "suggestions" to their clients, not just simple proofreading correction.
http://www.theproofreaders.com/clients.htm
I don't disagree that we're severely underpaid and becoming more and more so, but comparing the above proofreading to MT just seems really apples to oranges to me.
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