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Subject:Re: Bidding on Editing Work From:Chris Kowalchuk <chris -at- bdk -dot- net> To:emmy_aricioglu -at- hp -dot- com Date:Sun, 02 Apr 2000 12:17:31 -0400
"Light editing" is a euphamism for "the client does not want to pay you
properly for this job and thinks that editing is an advanced secretarial
skill."
Depending on your friend's skill and experience, I figure $30 to $50 per
hour is reasonable (I'm not in the midwest, however), and maybe 5 to 10
pages per hour would be the rate of work (so 50/10 = 5$/page) but that
is per pass, and if you are "working with the designer and the printer"
then break it down as follows:
5 pages/hour = one pass copyediting
10 pages/hour for further changes introduced as you go.
15 pages/hour = proofreading (that is, checking the proof pages created
by the printer to make sure they are the same as the final draft you
provided to the printer--that is what proofreading is, AND NOTHING
ELSE).
