Rate & Service Schedule
The agency rate applies where the client is a translation company or language service provider carrying out its own project management and quality assurance. The direct rate applies to every other client and reflects the additional work of intake, scoping, correspondence, and collection.
All amounts are in Canadian dollars. Clients outside Canada are quoted and invoiced in Canadian dollars.
| Tier | Content | Agency | Direct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | General and personal correspondence, message logs, receipts, informal business material, personal records | CA$0.13 | CA$0.18 |
| B | Civil documents, priced per page below, not per word | per page | per page |
| C | Academic and humanities: scholarly articles, theses, research, social-science and anthropological texts | CA$0.16 | CA$0.22 |
| D | Commercial and institutional: contracts, business reports, grant applications, non-profit and NGO material | CA$0.17 | CA$0.24 |
| E | Arts, culture and heritage: exhibition and catalogue texts, architecture, art criticism, museum and archival records | CA$0.18 | CA$0.26 |
| F | Transcreation and localization: marketing copy, campaign material, subtitling, game and software localization | CA$0.20 | CA$0.30 |
| G | Literary, the floor published by the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. Contracted separately, settling credit, copyright, royalty, and public lending right | CA$0.25 | CA$0.25 |
| Item | Basis | Agency | Direct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil document | 250-word page | CA$35.00 | CA$55.00 |
| Minimum | Per order, not per line | CA$35.00 | CA$55.00 |
- Non-editable source: scan, photograph, PDF, handwriting, screenshot+25%
- Rush delivery+30 to +50%
- Repeated segments, countable source onlyquarter rate
- Affidavit of AccuracyCA$35 + notary fee
- Declaration of Accuracyno charge
Where the source is electronically countable, the count comes from the source. Where it is not — a photograph, a scan, handwriting, or a PDF whose text will not extract accurately and in reading order, which an OCR layer often will not, and Persian and Arabic script least reliably of all — the count comes from the finished English text and the surcharge applies. Which basis applies is settled on inspection and stated in advance, in the Terms and again in the Quotation, so it is a term of the contract rather than an argument at invoice time. Where only part of a source is countable, the surcharge is applied only to the part that is not.
No GST/HST is charged; the translator is not registered. Rates are held in a schedule versioned separately from the contract, so a revision does not reopen the terms. The schedule in force at the date of your quotation is the one that governs.