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Agency & Translator Relationship
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Getting paid
Each agency has its own practice for the payment. Before you get jobs from a new agency, make sure you know their pay out date(s). It is generally acceptable to request translation agency to pay within 5 days for the first assignment. For subsequent jobs, you can follow the usual practice of the agency. Payments can get messy when the pay outs becoming late. Therefore, it is important that the agencies you work with pay on a timely fashion. In this way, both parties' (agency and you) payable and receivable accounts are crystal clear and easy to account for. It is important that translators manage their monthly account properly by themselves. In some cases, the figures with the translators may not be the same as the ones that the agency provided. The reasons can be due to the currency exchanging, bank remittance charges, bank's administrative charge, or even agency forgot to include certain payment, etc. There are many financial templates (usually in excel spreadsheet) available on the Internet. Modify it to suit the nature of your work.
Conclusion
We hope the article this month can help to provide some good insights for those who aim to become a professional translator. Keep good communication with agencies and work towards building a strong working relationship.
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