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I would be very interested in seeing a compile of the responses you get.
Staffing and project planning are always exercises in creative guesswork for
me, and I'm always interested in other people's metrics. For the record, I
estimate 1-2 pp/day over the life of the project for writers, 5-10 pp/day
for dev editing, 30-50 pp/day for copy editing, and 50+ for proofreading.
