Hire A Translator: Translator Job Description, Job Requirements, and Salary

Translator Job Summary

Translators interpret written or spoken material into one or more other languages, while ensuring that the meaning and context are maintained.

 

They work with business, technical, legal and scientific written materials including letters, reports, articles and books.

 

Many translators are self-employed while others are freelance.

 

Translator Education Requirements

A language degree is normally the minimum academic requirement for entry. a postgraduate translation qualification is necessary for graduates without a relevant background, or for language graduates whose studies did not include translation.

 

Areas of expertise, such as scientific, technical or legal knowledge can be beneficial. Practical translation work, an EU stage or any other commercial or administrative experience are an added advantage.

 

Translator Duties and Responsibilities

The main duties of translators include:

• Facilitate effective communication between two parties that do not speak a similar language by converting one spoken or written language to another.
• Attend conferences and meetings and act as official translator to mediate discussion.
• Translate foreign languages for clients in prison so they can understand prison officials.
• Relay concepts and ideas between languages.
• Translate spoken communication to sign language for hearing impaired audience.
• Convert written materials from one language into another, such as books, publications, or web pages.
• Create a new text in the target language that reproduces the content and style of the original.
• Edit and proofread text to accurately reflect language.
• Employ computer-assisted translation.
• Facilitate communication for people with limited English proficiency.
• Translate languages at meetings such as attorney-client meetings, preliminary hearings, arraignments, depositions, and trials.
• Interpret both legal terminology and colloquial language.
• Read aloud documents in a language other than that in which they were written.
• Provide language services to healthcare patients with limited English proficiency.
• Translate patient materials and informational brochures issued by hospitals and medical facilities into another language.
• Accompany foreign visitor and facilitate communication between receiving party and visitors.
• Adapt a product or service for use in a different language and culture.

 

Translator Salary Information

According to the BLS, interpreters and translators earned a median annual salary of $46,120 in 2016. The best-paid earned more than $83,010, while the lowest-paid earned less than $25,370.

 

Industries that pay well include the federal executive branch, computer systems design, and colleges, universities and professional schools.

 

Hire a Translator

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1. Submit your content request using the order form on this page
2. Receive proposals from our writers and deposit money into your account. Select the translator you feel can do your job in the best way possible
3. Receive well written content from the selected translator, review it, and pay translator