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About PEG
Professional Editors’ Guild (PEG) is a South African professional body representing copy-editors, proofreaders and other language practitioners in South and Southern Africa. Launched in Johannesburg in 1993 and registered as a non-profit company in 2015, it promotes professional standards and publishes rates surveys and fee scales for editing and proofreading services.
Summary written with AI from public sources, checked 9 Nov 2026. Sources: editors.org.za
What they publish
Their latest figures
Average: R470 per hourDocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
R0.34DocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
R0.63DocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
R0.55DocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
R0.24DocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
R2.43DocumentProfessional Editors’ Guild rates survey 2025 · Survey StatusIn force · 3 Apr 2025
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