Salaries for positions in the Translating, interpreting work area

The salary range of employees working in Japan in Translating, interpreting typically ranges from 2,444,628 JPY (low salaries) to 7,955,016 JPY (highest average, actual salaries may be even higher)

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

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.

2,285,640 - 7,365,864 JPY

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.).

2,587,884 - 7,485,612 JPY

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