How a job is priced.

Priced on the word count of the document you send rather than of the finished translation, so the count is settled before work starts and you can check it in the file you already hold.

Rates are set per language pair, because the supply of qualified reviewers differs by pair. A pair with a smaller reviewer pool costs more to staff, and we would rather say that than average it across every language. Each target language is priced on its own line, so dropping one does not require re-quoting the rest.

The second linguist sits inside that rate rather than beside it as an option — the review step is not a line you can decline.

Which unit applies depends on the state of the text, so this is quoted after a linguist has read it rather than from a description of it.

A translation that is broadly sound with localized problems is quoted hourly, because the work is reading and light editing. A text that has to be reworked sentence by sentence is quoted per word, and past that point we tell you retranslation is the cheaper path instead of letting hours accumulate. How review is scoped.

When you send an editable file and want the same format back, layout is inside the translation price and is not a separate charge.

It becomes its own line when the source is not editable text — a scan, a PDF with no working file behind it, a layout package — because the page has to be rebuilt rather than carried across. We quote that against the actual file, and we say at quote if the source is too poor to work from. What layout work covers.

Signed, dated, and issued with every delivery at no additional charge. Not an upgrade, not a rush add-on, and not a line you can decline to save money.

One certificate covers one source document in one language pair, so a notice issued in 3 languages carries 3 certificates — still at no charge. What the certificate states.