Salaries in the category

Translating, interpreting

The salary range of employees working in United Kingdom in Translating, interpreting typically ranges from 15,288 GBP (low salaries) to 49,428 GBP (highest average, actual salaries may be even higher)

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Gross salary in category Translating, interpreting

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80% of people earn:

15K - 49K GBP

10% earn less lthan 15K GBP

10% earns more than 49K GBP

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Salaries in the survey are expressed in gross.

Based on the gb.paylab.com salary survey, 80% of people in the Translating, interpreting category in the United Kingdom earn between 15,288 GBP and 49,428 GBP annually gross.

10% of employees earn less than 15,288 GBP and 10% of people earn more than 49,428 GBP.

The survey is based on data from employees, cleaned of extreme and duplicate values.

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List of positions in the Translating, interpreting category and their job descriptions

Job position

Description of job position

Market range

Interpreter

Studying vocabulary and technical terminology in the field being interpreted.
Performing simultaneous or consecutive interpretation from the source language into the target language with an emphasis placed on the accuracy and fluency of the interpreted speech.
Attending international events, business meetings, trials, police interrogations, etc.

Proofreader

Editing text regarding spelling, style, and content.
Marking identified errors using proofreading marks.
Final proofreading by reading the entire text.

14,688 - 44,460 GBP

Translator

Familiarising with the source text in order to understand its meaning and function.
Using the available and relevant literature and specialised software to translate the source text into the target language.
Translating the texts from the source language into the target language while retaining the original meaning, quality of translation and specific customer instructions.
Proofreading the translated text: correcting the grammatical and stylistic errors, typos, proofreading the text in terms of the meaning, reviewing the consistency of the terminology used and the completeness of the translated text, and locating specific data for a specific target language (e.g. writing of the proper numbers, dates, units of measure etc.).

16,080 - 46,212 GBP

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