Lucas Noah 
The cost has always been a pressing question for translation services. How much does a translation cost? How much does a translator charge per hour? Let us clarify this dilemma.
First of all, translation cost, and implicitly the fee that a translator charges, varies per language pair and domain. That said, language pairs are classified into several translation groups, depending on their uniqueness. This classification takes into consideration grammar structure, script, geographic location, demand. We have compiled a list of them for your convenience:[1]
Category I
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Category II
- German
- Indonesian
Category III
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Czech
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Georgian
- Greek
- Dari/Persian Farsi
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Slovak
- Russian
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Turkish
- Uzbek
- Urdu
- Nepali
- Sinhalese
Category IV
- Arabic
- Chinese (Traditional, Chinese Simplified)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Pashto
- Malay
- Mongolian
- Swahili
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
- Xhosa
Furthermore, translation is measured and charged per word, not per hour. This valuation is preferred to avoid any discrepancies in cost for translators who may be faster than others. Translator fees typically range between USD/EUR 0.09 and USD/EUR 0.20 per word, depending on the complexity of the content to be translated. As a rule, legal, medical, and engineering translations cost more.
Pangea Global offers professional translation services in 70+ languages for the domains mentioned above. For more information about cost and the types of translations we offer, please visit our website.