8.5 cents per 70 char/line with spaces
Posted By: Need Input on 2005-08-19
In Reply to:
Does anyone get paid like this? Is this good?
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
The norm in the 80s was 4 cents per Gross Line, not 65 char with spaces. nm
nm
The rate was 9.75 cents, 65 char. without spaces. No thanx! nm
x
I see they pay on a VBC line. Isn't that a huge paycut from a 65-char. line with spaces? nm
x
Spaces are about 27% of a 65 char line
nm
55 char line with spaces
Ok guys how does a 55 char line WITH spaces = to a 65 char line. I was offered 8 for 55 char line with spaces and counts underlines, bolds, hard returns etc.
55 char line with spaces
Is 8cpl for a 55 char line with spaces and double counts for bold, underline, etc a good rate. Sorry, but i am used to getting paid for a 65 character line. What does this equal out to? Does anyone know how to figure it out. TIA!!
Is a 55-char line without spaces good?
Does anyone know how a 55-character line WITHOUT spaces would compare to a 65-character line WITH spaces? Which one is better?
The average 65-char line has more than 10 spaces.
Your math is flawed.
Not true. They pay based on a 65-char line with spaces.
nm
PS - pay based on 65-char line, SPACES INCLUDED. SM
Also paid for weekend work, 2nd and 3rd shift differential. Bonus plan based on production.
They use MedRite software, only offered 7-8 cpl on a 70-char. line w/spaces. Supposed to offer
s
Is 8 cpl/65 char including spaces good pay for Radiology?
TIA
I read in archives that pay is 65 char wo spaces, is that true?
dd
Northeast Transcription says that FT is 32 hrs/1000 lpd, but 70-char.lines with all spaces and
s
Is 8 cpl on 65 char with spaces,header, footer good rate for IC work?
Want to accept position. Wondering if that's a good rate today. THank you
I also work for 8 cents a line. I left a job typing OPs for 10-11 cents sm
to take a clinic job. I made an average of $17-18 an hour with OPs, now make $16-17 an hour, but the work is easier on me. I do not call that poor pay. I type 200+ lines an hour. True, it isn't the $26-27 an hour I was making 10 years ago at a hospital, but that's gone for good. I have excellent skills, make better than 99% on QA at any company I have worked for, and some of those have been very demanding.
I'm afraid the people that are expecting to make $20-30 an hour in MT are going to be disappointed. A few can still make that amount, but for the average good transcriptionist, the pay is much more likely to run $15-20. Benefits are pretty much gone. However, I feel that what I'm making is considerably above what I could make in another field, unless I decide to teach, which I will not do. Still, I make more than I would at Walmart or Burger King, or even a secretarial job. It's my choice. Good luck to you.
I make .05 - 65 char line now, what should I be getting?
I have been working for almost 2 years.
They are paying 0.05 per 65/char line for VR nm
x
Will it be a 65-char. line or longer? nm
s
ya, it was a wierd char/line...sm
you are sane in my book, if that counts LOL
The mentoring program does not pay 8-1/2 cents per line. Believe it is like 6 cents.
n/m
Paid for 55 char black line...
Can anyone tell me if they get paid this way instead of the 65 w/ spaces? If anyone else does, can you tell me roughly the difference it makes versus getting paid for spaces?
Thanks
Mark off a 65-char line. Then take random
sentences from your reports. Then count the spaces. Or you could put it in Word and use the tools to average it out. The average of spaces per 65-char line is more than 10. Try it yourself rather than just believing what you've been told.
Sounds like a gross line though, not 65-char.
Don't know if I misinterpreted the ad, but it might not be too bad if it is a gross line depending on dictator style. If there are a lot of short lines like on my current account, it could work out really well. I would actually make more at 6 cents per gross line than I make at 8 cents per 65-character line. Comparing the last report I just did, I made $5.08 for the report at 8 cpl, but if I had been paid 6 cents per gross line, I would have made $8.58. Can't really judge line rate unless you have all the info.
I thought someone posted on here about 75 char line, and can't check lines...nm
x
Do they still pay you 5 cents a line and 2 cents if you send anything to QA?
xx
I have a problem with 7 cents and 8 cents a line because
...when I started 15 years ago, my very first MT job started me out at 8 cents a gross line, then went to 9 cents a gross line after only a year. I was SOOO happy and proud of myself for choosing a profession that paid so well - I imagined myself making a lot of $$ once I had 10 or 15 years experience behind me...
Well that never happened; in fact, it all went backwards, pay wise. The company I worked for back then sold out to a national, and of course the pay was cut, and 9 cents a gross line was never to be had again, at least not that I could find. I am considered living in poverty now. I started out great but have ended up very badly.
I think my own personal problem is that it's hard for me to let go the fact that I made good money just starting out and how everything I had ever learned about jobs, careers and pay was that the more experience and education you have in a particular field, the more your pay goes up as each year passes. Well my pay has been consistently taking a nosedive for at least a decade now. I actually have to work MORE to make at least as much as I did years ago, and it's killing me health-wise as far as my wrists, my legs, my neck, my back....
It also kills me that I'm going to have to accept 7 or 8 cents a 65-character line when I made so much more than that 15 years ago.
I suppose to someone who's just starting out, 7 or 8 cents would seem pretty good, though. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to land any jobs with my resume. They may not want me with my years of experience, probably want a newbie who will be more grateful about such low pay. I dunno.
I could just kick myself for wasting money on MT school those years ago when I could've spent it on a career that would actually LAST and where I'd be making great money after being in the same field for 15 years. There's just no reward to this business. None at all, IMO.
I would NOT recommend this field to anyone just getting started. To me, it's a dead field.
I'd have more freedom working at McDonalds (for a number of reasons), and, believe me, I've been considering taking a local job around my home for minimum wage. At least I'd have a consistent paycheck and would know exactly what I'm getting every 2 weeks, then build from there as far as another job or two.
Well anyway that's all. I really need a job. I'm going down, going under, and it's a shame because I do very good work and have all this experience but no one seems to want me, even the low-paying companies. Oh well.
If you are paid cpl based on 65 char.line, margins dont matter.
s
Oh, they make money off us. Line rate is 17 cents a gross line.nm
z
Spaces are not taken into account with gross lines....a line is a line...sm
if there seven words on a line.
or two
one
or a full line of typing...all of the companies that I have worked for define a gross line as 1 inch margins, 12 pt courier font....does not matter what we type in margins or font.....we convert all reports to the 1 inch margins and courier 12 font and then count the lines. not the blank spaces between the lines.
Hope this helps.
It's longer than the "standard" 65-char. line so will take you longer to make those lines!
m
10 cents per line
so does AccuSTAT, Wisconsin for ER work!!!
This would be cents per line.
If it were more like 65-70 cpl, it would be characters per line.
CPL = cents per line
Then of course you need to know how they define a line. "Standard" is 65 characters is a line, but that might be with spaces or without spaces being counted. Also, not all companies a define a line this way, and it could be gross line (anything on a line, even one character is considered a line), or it could be a character line (with or without spaces).
But...CPL means cents per line.
MA 3 cents per line
Yes, yes. I worked for them for one whole day. The only reason I applied was because I was born in Mass (but now live in AZ) and it was an editing job, which I wanted to try doing, since I trained MTs for so long and edited their reports, etc. Anyway, the supervisor, Bobbi, was an absolute tyrant nightmare. Training was done over the phone, and she was so nasty and bitter, she made you feel like you had never done a thing in the medical field ever before. For example, I was not following what she was talking about as far as her formatting statements, and she was going on like, what are you talking about???!!!  I had to take a Valium and Rolaids, and then she told me to go ahead and transcribe some reports.......I have been doing transcription over 20-years, and wanted to just edit. Well, she said she was going out for the evening, but there should be no problem with the system and sending the reports on after I transcribed them. Well, there sure was. I contacted the lady that was her assistant, and SHE ragged on me for contacting her. I said, 'sorry, I can't send the reports. Something is wrong with the system, so I am just going to email them to you, so you know they have been done at least. The next morning I woke up and emailed Bobbi that I am not right for this job. Nobody is. That has been years ago, and amazingly she cannot hold on to anybody for that Editor job. It was so bad, I cannot remember the name of the company - Maybe something like Infomatics, or something. She was an absolute horror. Don't work for her. You will not be happy........
Deb
QA at 2 cents per line...
 Is this fair pay? Tomorrow I have an interview with a company that pays 2 cents a line for proofreading. This seems a bit low, but I dont have anything to compare it to. This might be a good opportunity to learning something new and get some experience in QA - since it seems like QA might be the way to stay in this industry a bit longer with all of the offshoring and VR now.
6 cents a line!?!?!
I have almost seven years experience and some people have the nerve of offering 6 cpl IC status. I think that is crazy. Even if it is the same doctors and no ESLs. I have worked for a couple of places where I make 8 cpl and have the same doctors and no ESLs. I could understand if I were a newby or I tested for them and did bad. They never even tested me. They just send me an email stating what they offer.
at least 4 cents a line
I got my first editing job for 4 cents per line. 2 cents is slave labor.
3 cents per line
Are you sure they didn't mean 3 cents per line added to 7.5 cents per line?
Their ad says 6 to 9 cents per line; not 6 to 8 (nm)
xx
I get 3-1/2 cents per line..nm
d
8 cents a line...
I regularly see people posting that 0.08/line is very low pay. I have only been paid by the line for the past 2 years...before that I was paid hourly and worked for a hospital. When I decided to work at home and saw that I could expect to get paid 7.5 to 8 per line...I thought that was decent. I regularly type between 200 and 300 lines per hour...so even at my minimum that is $16/hour....I can't make that at Burger King.
6.5 cents a line?!?!?!
No wonder Spheris doesn't give a rip about keeping their top-notch employees.
And why should they care that MTs with decades of experience are walking away in droves, when they can just get some newbie to work for peanuts?
No offense to you personally, but the MTs who are willing to work for next to nothing are driving the entire MT profession down the drain.
I started 23 years ago at 8.5 cents a line.
If we keep devaluing ourselves, how do we expect MTSOs to place any value in us either?
'Nuff said.
6.5 cents per line
sdf
only 6 cents per line
You probably should try to get your own accounts, by calling doctors and/or putting an ad on MTStars like I did with my resume and my specialties, because doctors' staff do look at it. I should know, I am doing a major account because of it. I wish you the best.
I believe it was 7.5 cents a line, even
with 17 years' experience. Plus their software and system did not sound efficient.
Umm, take the 4.5 cents/line!
Even at a moderate pace and 100% reading of each report, that is more than $11.00 an hour.
5 - 7 cents/line..........
I bet it is for voice recognition
I would do QA for 2 cents/line
If all I had to do was fill in blanks, with ZERO proofreading and feedback. 
At 6 to 8 cents/line?
Are they kidding?
Pay is low - 0.05 cents per line
I'm not sure what platform they use.
|
