The ATA Chronicle - March/April 2022 - 10

SUMMARY
OF THE
T
ATA
Compensation
Survey
As an ongoing effort to provide business
strategies and solutions, the ATA
Compensation Survey is an important
service provided by ATA to its members.
By Ted Wozniak
o address the need
for a comprehensive
picture of the
market for translation
and interpreting services,
ATA recently conducted a
compensation survey. The
ATA Compensation Survey
(previously called the
Translation and Interpreting
Services Survey) serves
to provide professional
practitioners and others
with an overview of the
income and pay rate data
of translators, interpreters,
and company owners
working in the U.S.
The survey is an invaluable
benchmarking tool for nearly
everyone in or affiliated
with the translation and
interpreting industry. The
survey allows an individual
or company to easily
compare their compensation
to their peers. Translators
and interpreters can review
rates across languages,
specialties, and location,
and companies involved in
translation and interpreting
can refer to this report
when determining their
competitiveness with respect
to compensation. Students
considering careers in the
translation and interpreting
industry can also use this
tool to guide their specific
career decisions and gain
insight about potential
compensation. In addition,
the survey serves as a
practical tool for a broader
audience-individuals
and businesses in the
market for translation and
interpreting services.
As an ongoing effort to
provide business strategies
and solutions, this survey is
an important service provided
by ATA to its members.
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Survey Design
ATA worked with Dynamic
Benchmarking, LLC.,
an independent firm
specializing in associationrelated
research, to conduct
an industry-wide survey of
compensation for translation
and interpreting services.
Responses were received
from language services
professionals residing in the
U.S. Dynamic Benchmarking
collected the survey
responses, thus ensuring
participant anonymity.
ATA membership was not
required to participate.
To show the effects of the
pandemic on translator and
interpreter income and rates,
the survey was designed to
collect data both from before
the pandemic (2019) and
during the pandemic (2020).
The 11 classifications of
language services roles in
this report include:
y Self-employed/freelance
translator
y Self-employed/freelance
interpreter
y Self-employed/freelance
project manager or
coordinator
y Self-employed/freelance
terminology manager,
translation or interpreting
teacher, translation or
interpreting examination
designer/grader, cultural
trainer
y Staff translator
y Staff interpreter
y Staff project manager or
coordinator
y Staff terminology
manager, translation
or interpreting teacher,
translation or interpreting
examination designer/
grader, cultural trainer
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