Translation & transcreation www.ahmedmanzoor.com
Rates and terms

What it costs, and how I work

Starting figures, the match grid I apply, and the terms I ask for. Published so you can budget before you write to me.

Per source word, unless stated
ServiceRate
Translation, medical and legalClinical documents, informed consent, litigation, regulated contentfrom $0.14
Translation, generalCorporate, education, marketing, technical, interface. By language: Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujaratifrom $0.12
Revision and proofreadingReview and correction of an existing translation. Hourly also available$0.05
Machine translation post editingPriced as a flat figure, not as a discount off translation$0.10
Certified translationQuoted per document. Send a scan or a photograph and you will have a figure backon request
Linguistic validationMulti step medical workflows, quoted per project rather than per wordon request
Minimum charge
$50Covers any project up to 500 words
Daily output
4,000 wordsSustained, in my own language pairs
Larger volumes
By arrangementDelivered with vetted partner linguists under my coordination
Rush work
Surcharge on requestQuoted with the job, and often waived when my schedule allows

Trados match grid

Applied to any translation base rate. Segments below 75 percent similarity are charged in full, because a partial match at that level usually needs retranslating rather than editing.

Medical and legal, $0.14 base
Match bandPer word
No match$0.140
50 to 74%$0.140
75 to 84%$0.093
85 to 94%$0.093
95 to 99%$0.093
100% match$0.046
Repetitions$0.046
General, $0.12 base
Match bandPer word
No match$0.120
50 to 74%$0.120
75 to 84%$0.080
85 to 94%$0.080
95 to 99%$0.080
100% match$0.039
Repetitions$0.039

Payment

Working with me

Business
Ahmed ManzoorSole proprietor, registered in New York State, United States
Tax documentation
W-9 on requestUS based, so no W-8BEN and no cross border withholding
Partner linguists
Under signed NDAEvery linguist and clinician I bring onto a project signs before seeing client material
References
Available on requestIncluding sponsors for the multi step medical work
CV
Download, PDFTwo pages, generated from the same record as this site

Certified documents are the exception. Those are quoted per document rather than per word, because a one page birth certificate and a twelve page police record are not the same job.

Rates are a starting point, not a ceiling on discussion. Volume, repeat work and predictable scheduling all move them. So does difficulty: a poorly scanned handwritten chargesheet is not the same job as a clean product manual.

Send the document, or tell me the deadline

Enquiries answered from Depew, New York. An NDA is available before anything is sent.