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Amount Spent
for Translation
Considering the various methods used to secure translations, it is
not surprising that federal agencies have paid many different prices
for translation—prices ranging from $9 to $66 per 1,000 words. (It
is not altogether unheard of for a translation purchaser to pay a
translator who does exceptionally good work for more words than
he actually translates.)
At its first meeting, the Committee decided that it would be
useful to have a fairly reliable estimate of the amount of money
the government was spending for translation. Although the figures
collected by the Committee constitute only an estimate—and a rough
estimate, at that—we feel that it is the best estimate of the govern-
mentts translation expenditures made up to this time.
Amounts spent by government agencies for translations done by:
$ Millions
JPRS Fiscal Year 1964 1.3
Commercial Agencies Fiscal Year 1964 (Est. by H. R. 3.6
Select Committee)
PL 480 Fiscal Year 1965 1.5
NSF Domestic Fiscal Year 1965 1.1
In-House Fiscal Year 1963 5.3
FTD MT 1 March- 2 October 1964 0.27
Total 13. 07
It is clear from the above figures that translation in the govern-
ment is a very small field of activity when compared with most
undertakings in which the government supports research and
development.
Bernard Bierman, a New York translation agency owner and a
director of the American Translators Association has estimated
that the commercial translation agencies in the United States do
about $7.5 million worth of business each year. When this figure
is added to the $13 million spent by the government, the sum is
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about $20 million. To this should be added perhaps $2 million for
the amount spent for nongovernment in-house translators. Thus
the estimate of the amount of money spent on translation would be
raised to approximately $22 million.
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