Salaries in the category

Translating, interpreting

The salary range of employees working in Kenya in Translating, interpreting typically ranges from 389,580 KES (low salaries) to 1,304,280 KES (highest average, actual salaries may be even higher)

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Gross salary in category Translating, interpreting

Salaries may vary by position, the value given is indicative.

80% of people earn:

390K - 1.3M KES

10% earn less lthan 390K KES

10% earns more than 1.3M KES

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Salaries in the survey are expressed in gross.

Based on the Kenya.paylab.com salary survey, 80% of people in the Translating, interpreting category in the Kenya earn between 389,580 KES and 1,304,280 KES annually gross.

10% of employees earn less than 389,580 KES and 10% of people earn more than 1,304,280 KES.

The survey is based on data from employees, cleaned of extreme and duplicate values.

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List of positions in the Translating, interpreting category and their job descriptions

Job position

Description of job position

Market range

Interpreter

Studying vocabulary and technical terminology in the field being interpreted.
Performing simultaneous or consecutive interpretation from the source language into the target language with an emphasis placed on the accuracy and fluency of the interpreted speech.
Attending international events, business meetings, trials, police interrogations, etc.

Proofreader

Editing text regarding spelling, style, and content.
Marking identified errors using proofreading marks.
Final proofreading by reading the entire text.

390,384 - 1,176,420 KES

Translator

Familiarising with the source text in order to understand its meaning and function.
Using the available and relevant literature and specialised software to translate the source text into the target language.
Translating the texts from the source language into the target language while retaining the original meaning, quality of translation and specific customer instructions.
Proofreading the translated text: correcting the grammatical and stylistic errors, typos, proofreading the text in terms of the meaning, reviewing the consistency of the terminology used and the completeness of the translated text, and locating specific data for a specific target language (e.g. writing of the proper numbers, dates, units of measure etc.).

441,180 - 1,270,296 KES

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