Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2016 9) 662-674 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81.33 The Dictates of the Market The Future of Profession of Translators and Interpreters in a Post-Socialist EU-Member State Nike K. Pokorn* University of Ljubljana 2 Askerceva, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia Received 19.10.2015, received in revised form 04.12.2015, accepted 28.02.2016 The article outlines the changes of the profession of translators and interpreters, and the development of the translator and interpreter training at the university level in the Republic of Slovenia, one of the post-socialist EU member states, in the last 35 years. <...> It also provides an insight into the present and future status of the profession by surveying the average earnings of junior translators in the Slovene and Russian translation and interpreting markets. <...> Through an analysis of the public database containing information on all business entities in Slovenia, a description of the translation market in 2014 is made and the fi ndings are compared to those of a similar study carried out in 2007, focusing on the changes that occurred as the result of the outsourcing and globalization of the profession. <...> Finally, a survey of the graduates of the Department of Translation Studies, University of Ljubljana, and of four CIUTI translator – and interpreter-training higher-education institutions from Russia are presented, focusing in particular on graduate employment statistics and average earnings of junior translators and interpreters. <...> Keywords: translation market, professional translators and interpreters, globalization of translation business, education of translators and interpreters, average earnings of translators and interpreters in Slovenia and Russia. <...> Introduction The aim of changes the professions of the article is to describe the translators and interpreters have undergone from Socialist times to the present day in the Republic of Slovenia, one of the post-socialist EU member states. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: nike.pokorn@ff.uni-lj.si # 662 # aim of the article is to provide an insight into the present and future status of the profession in the region by surveying the average earnings of junior translators in the Slovene and Russian translation and interpreting markets. <...> In Chapter 1 a brief overview of Nike K. Pokorn. <...> The Future of Profession of Translators and Interpreters in a Post-Socialist… the history of Slovene language will be provided, followed by the description of the development of the profession of translators and interpreters on the Slovene market in 1980s and 1990s in Chapter 2. <...> In Chapter 5 two graduate surveys will be described: the fi rst one carried out by the Department of Translation Studies of the University of Ljubljana <...>