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Translation & interpretation

You translate documents or interpret live between languages for clients. You're paid per word or per hour, and certified work pays more.

3.5Last review 2 weeks agoLow data
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Median monthly earnings
$1,125
Middle 50%: $750 – $1,500
Effective hourly
$50.00
Earnings over the hours people logged
Hours per week
5 hrs
Median across reviews
Startup cost
$100–500
To get up and running
Time to first $100
Within a week
From starting out
Monthly expenses
$50–150
To keep it running
Schedule flexibility
Fully on my own terms
Most common answer
Would recommend it
100%
2 of 2 say yes or probably yes
What people make in a month
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$100–250
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$500–1,000
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$3,500–5,000
$5,000–10,000
$10,000+
How it scores
Happiness7.0 / 10
Would do it again100%
Schedule flexibility5.0 / 5
Pay predictability2.3 / 5
What surprised people most
Every option reviewers could pick, most common first. 2 reviews.
How much I could earn
2
Taxes — how much I owe
2
How competitive the market is
1
How little I could earn
0
How much time it takes
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How difficult it is to get started
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How difficult it is to find customers or clients
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Reviews
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· 5+ years in · 2 weeks ago
Monthly $1,000–2,000Hours 20–40 hrs/moHourly $50.00

I already explained in the previous one. I have two side hustles; both for interpreting services. One is over the phone/video calls and the other is on-site interpreting.

· 5+ years in · 2 weeks ago
Monthly $500–1,000Hours 10–20 hrs/moHourly $50.00

What I dislike about interpreting is that the majority of clients do not know how to use interpretation services. My advice I would give someone starting with interpreting is to continually keep learning terminology and to give it time to get used to interpreting. I don’t think I would change anything about my side hustle, I just wish more people will be educated or aware of how interpreters work if they’re going to need one, but for that I do explain how it works in the beginning of the encounter but people tend to forget and then they don’t really follow the rules right. The rules pretty much are to speak in clear and short sentences so that I can interpret everything, many tend to believe interpreters are like robots or walking dictionaries. And a good interpreter doesn’t summarize, it interprets the meaning of everything that was said into the target language. Thank you.

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