What's the average size of your translation projects?

Dmitry

average job size

Howdy friends!

We have people in our community who work in a a variety of fields and have all sorts of specializations from video game translators to medical and legal and financial translators.

So I was wondering what's the average word count of your average project. I'm curious to see how your specialization affects the volume of work that you receive. ?

Dmitry

Ok, I'll start ?

I work in video game localization and although it's fantastic field to be working in, the job size will largely depend on the size of the game.

Sometimes there are months when I work on rather large 10-20k words projects and then there are months like this September when I have 40-50 projects averaging at 100-200 words (a lot of those projects and small-ish updates or What's new updates and changelogs (for example for iOS)

Gentiana

It depends on the project. Some of them vary from 10-40K words (criminal proceedings files), some are very small. It's difficult to set an average.

Dmitry

Gentiana

Gentiana criminal proceedings files

These ones must be so much fun to translate (you probably feel like an investigator when you translate them).

Gentiana some are very small

I take it you specialize in legal documentation, @Gentiana? What are some of the jobs in this field that are tiny? I always thought that legal is where you have no shortage of very big jobs (like contracts, agreements, court files, etc). ?

Gentiana

Dmitry yes, I am. But I'm not the only one translating these documents. Criminal proceedings come in big volumes, while standard administrative acts are small.