Computational Linguist

o Design computer programs that deal with

language
Machine translation
Speech recognition
o Can expect to make around $100,000 per year
o Lowest unemployment rate of all linguistics-related careers



Teaching
o Teach foreign languages, or teach English as a second
language
o Often relocated to foreign countries
o Pay depends on demand
41.5K per year for ESL teachers in America
~ 20K per year for ESL teachers in China
44.5K for Spanish teachers in America

Market research
o Research market trends based on how they relate to language
and terminology of advertisements
o Determine whether advertisements have any negative
connotations in the language(s) of the target audience
o 88.4K, but there is a range of about 33K 144K, depending
on the company and how talented the employee is

Translation/transcription
o Translating documents from one language to another
o Quality assurance
o Writing down the words of audio files, usually in lawsuits
o Pay depends on work efficiency, language, document
Cryptology
o Deciphers codes of all sorts (linguistic, computer, data sets,
etc.)
o Encrypt programs to protect them
o Invent language codes to protect information
o Usually work for the government, or for big-name corporations
and credit card companies
o College apprenticeships: $40,000 per year
o Average job earnings: $70,000






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