Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools grid and pricing. (Money matters)
Poster: Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Post title: Will you use CAT?
The first question you need to check is if you will use a CAT tool for this work. Do you have a CAT tool of your own, or will the agency provide one? If you do not use a CAT tool in your work, applying this kind of discount grid definitely makes no sense, since any kind of "fuzzy" repetitions can only be utilized with a CAT tool. However, the agency surely expects you to use a CAT tool, so this point should be clarified directly.
Now, if we assume you use CAT, we can then have a closer look at this discount grid. The first thing that caught my eye is that 100% matches/repetitions do not appear in the grid at all. Obviously, the agency expects you to do this kind of repetition for free. This should be checked and discussed. At least in my language pair, even 101% matches need to be checked and sometimes to be changed, so that this is part of the work and should be paid (a rate like a review rate would be appropriate for this).
Next, my experience (in my pair, but probably in all other language pairs as well) tells me that "fuzzy" matches below 85% are all but worthless. Giving a discount for any match below 85% makes no economical sense, except maybe as a concession to the agency for whatever consideration.
That leaves the 85-94% and the 95-99% ranges. That part is debatable, but the offer of 15% for the 95-99% range is too low in any case.
Topic: CAT tools grid and pricing. (Money matters)
Poster: Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Post title: Will you use CAT?
The first question you need to check is if you will use a CAT tool for this work. Do you have a CAT tool of your own, or will the agency provide one? If you do not use a CAT tool in your work, applying this kind of discount grid definitely makes no sense, since any kind of "fuzzy" repetitions can only be utilized with a CAT tool. However, the agency surely expects you to use a CAT tool, so this point should be clarified directly.
Now, if we assume you use CAT, we can then have a closer look at this discount grid. The first thing that caught my eye is that 100% matches/repetitions do not appear in the grid at all. Obviously, the agency expects you to do this kind of repetition for free. This should be checked and discussed. At least in my language pair, even 101% matches need to be checked and sometimes to be changed, so that this is part of the work and should be paid (a rate like a review rate would be appropriate for this).
Next, my experience (in my pair, but probably in all other language pairs as well) tells me that "fuzzy" matches below 85% are all but worthless. Giving a discount for any match below 85% makes no economical sense, except maybe as a concession to the agency for whatever consideration.
That leaves the 85-94% and the 95-99% ranges. That part is debatable, but the offer of 15% for the 95-99% range is too low in any case.