The GITS Blog » productivity http://ginstrom.com/scribbles Random scribbling about programming, translation, and Japan Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:09:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Translator output http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2008/11/20/translator-output/ http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/2008/11/20/translator-output/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:23:12 +0000 Ryan Ginstrom http://ginstrom.com/scribbles/?p=646 In the comments to this post by Thoughts on Translation, several translators said that they use 2,000 words per day as a benchmark (or rule) for daily output. In an article about how much to charge for translation, I estimated that translators probably produce around 2,400 words per day on average, and Masked Translator agreed with me.

Curious about this seeming consensus on average productivity, I calculated my average output per month for the past year. It turns out that I've averaged about 350 pages per month, which given 22 working days per month is about 16 pages per day, or 3,200 words.

I was actually a little surprised at that: it often feels like more. <G> But that's because I'll often have very high-volume jobs, punctuated by lulls of just a few pages per day. It's very rare for me to have no work at all in the queue.

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