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Poll: In your opinion, the minimum rates suggested by your local translators' association are
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Ukraine
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As good as not Apr 1, 2016

A local association in a global/international scale of consumerization? Not very funny even on April Fools' Day.

TA is neither a trend-maker, nor a market-shaper, because it is the client-vendor who decide.
As far as I remember, their recommended price was about UAH100 per A4 page some five years ago, when a dollar was approx. six hryvnas... and they still recommend (almost) the same rates, when everything goes up ('improve') in price daily and a dollar costs some 27 hryvnas--... See more
A local association in a global/international scale of consumerization? Not very funny even on April Fools' Day.

TA is neither a trend-maker, nor a market-shaper, because it is the client-vendor who decide.
As far as I remember, their recommended price was about UAH100 per A4 page some five years ago, when a dollar was approx. six hryvnas... and they still recommend (almost) the same rates, when everything goes up ('improve') in price daily and a dollar costs some 27 hryvnas--doesn't make much sense, no?
What a deadly elasticity! ▲ Collapse
 
SteveMcD
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German to English
Don't know... Apr 1, 2016

....and never thought about it.

What I do know is that my rates are high enough for me and low enough for my clients.
 
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