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Subject:Re: Independent Editors - What do they do? From:JSulli2855 -at- aol -dot- com To:tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:48:09 EDT
Tony wrote:
<<Who is going to pay big bucks ($40 - 50 dollars/hour or more)to do
administrative
assistant work? (That is who typically edits my work.)>>
Editing done by administrative assistants? What is your definition of editing?
If you mean proofreading, certainly $40 to $50 an hour is too high. If you
mean content or heavy copy editing, which most "administrative assistants"
aren't qualified to do, $40 an hour is an acceptable rate.
