Literary Translator
Carries meaning and voice between languages at book length. Deep, slow work with an unforgiving rate card.
- Pay band (est.)
- $32k–$75k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 8/100
- Hours burden
- 48/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play79th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge89th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand4th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay6th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body99th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy87th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit24th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility99th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load61th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance67th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Machine translation has gutted rates outside literary work.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 48/100 and people intensity 25/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: Industry survey patterns; editorial estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.