This page lists the average rates reported by ProZ.com's community of freelance translators and translation companies. Please be aware that this data does not necessarily reflect the average of rates actually charged and paid for real-world projects; it is only an aggregate view of the rates that users have entered into their ProZ.com profiles.
Type of siteAvailable inEnglish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, etc.Founded(1999)Area servedWorldwideOwnerHenry DottererEmployees20 (2018)Websiterank10,039 (April 2014 )CommercialYesRegistrationRequired960,097 (October 2018)LaunchedNovember 1999Current statusActiveProZ.com is a membership-based website targeting freelance translators. Founded in 1999, it is mainly used for posting and responding to translation job offers. As of 20 October 2018, ProZ.com reports more than 960,000 registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.The site is available in more than 45 languages and is being in 35 other languages, although localization is not complete for many languages, the default setting being English.
Reports ProZ.com has 220k monthly unique U.S. Visitors.The website is not restricted to professional translators and hosts a number of semi-professional and amateur translators. It is open to anyone, without proof of competency or legal registration. Contents.Features and information ProZ.com is based in, United States, and it has offices in, and,.The site features a virtual community of translators and offers a wide range of resources, registered users are able to broadcast their professional identity as on the internet and receive job offers in the mail with the appropriate language combinations.
Registration is required for most services. It also provides discussion and online glossaries.
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Although much of the website requires paid membership in order to be used, and the website receives income from paid advertising, the site has been developed with the help of unpaid volunteers. One remarkable feature are its terminology questions, asked and answered by users; more than 2 million term translation questions have been answered via the site.The website features: WWA for translators and the BlueBoard for outsourcers.Inc.
Magazine rates the service as 'a helpful resource for small translation projects' but because only paid members could see the going rates, 'non-members may have trouble figuring out how much to offer.' (That rate information has since been made public. )A Guardian blog article published in April 2012 referred to ProZ.com as 'the world's largest translator organisation'.On September 30, 2009 the site organized a that attracted a large number of attendees. Annual virtual translation conferences have been held since then, and are open to anyone with a registered profile on the site.Scams Numerous cases of scamming and identity theft (including large-scale ) have been reported and preventive measures taken to address the problems. Sites with comparable features ProZ.com leads its major competitors in the segment of translation websites, such as, in two major metrics, volume of activity and registered users.
Cooperation with non-profits ProZ.com has contributed programming services and a work platform, and access to its database of translators to the non-profit group. It also cooperated with non-profit, and has sponsored events held by the and others in the past.In particular, ProZ.com is hosting and powering the translation platform used by to deliver over 2.5 million words in 2011 and 4.5 million words in 2012, donated by volunteers to humanitarian organizations. This includes the translation into several languages of as part of the.References.