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Re: Proofreader Salaries

Subject: Re: Proofreader Salaries
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:37:22 -0400


carol -dot- gilbert -at- comcast -dot- net wrote:

I have been a writer and my own proofreader in the past. As a contractor, I have applied for a part-time proofreader job. I know the hourly rate I make being completely responsible for writing manuals, but have no idea how much less a proofreader would make. This is in Silicon Valley where salaries and expenses tend to be higher than most of the country (US). Any idea? I am on digest. TIA.



Carol,

It depends. If the job is really for a proofreader (not a copy editor), it could pay about a dollar or two an hour more than a burger flipper makes and considerably less than you could earn as a waitress in a decent restaurant. I can't put that in dollar per hour terms, because I don't know what burger flippers make in Silicon Valley.

However, if the proofreading job happens to be with a law firm, it could be perhaps double what I estimated above. And if it is really an editing job that was posted with the wrong title, it could be pretty decent. So you should at least get the facts from the source before deciding whether to pursue the job.

Dick

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