Any math wizards out there that can help..Based on a 65 character line,

if you were not paid for spaces, what would 11 cpl (w/o) equal? It sounded good, but when I did the math it was lower than 8 cpl with spaces? I hope I'm not right.

Sorry I know people have asked this before but I couldnt remember answer.

• Any math wizards out there that can help..Based on a 65 character line, - luvmting
  • Lines w/o spaces - TotallyRadMT
  • Will it be a 65-char. line or longer? nm - nm
    • This is how it's explained,, - luvmting
      • Still need help on figuring what would be a good cpl if paid w/o spaces. - luvmting
        • guess it would depend on what they are offering to - me

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a line just has one character on it, it is considered a line.   If you are getting 6 cpl per gross that is approximately equal to 8 cpl based on 65 characters.  Sometimes the font on a gross line can make it be less than that though. 

Hi!  I just checked an OP note I did yesterday.  Characters with spaces was 5935.  I get paid on a 65-character line with spaces, so that came out to 91.3 lines.

Characters without spaces was 4999.  So, if you divide that by 37, you get 135.1 lines.

In the first scenario, I would get paid $8.22.

In the second scenario, I would get paid $12.16. (If both pay the same per line...9 cents in this example).

So, you would definitely do better to accept the 37-character line withOUT spaces! :)

Chickadee

I am interested in SoftScript's pay rate.

I heard they pay by a 65 character line? What do they use as their words per line rate?

I am working for a company who uses 8 words per line and am curious as to how this would compare to SoftScript? Any information would be helpful!

Thanks!

per pay period (twice a month) of 3500 lines.  I think that 3500 lines per pay period only pays around .065 cents a line though.  5000+ lines a pay period is 8 cents a line.  They are IC, but they do pay the employer portion of Soc.Security (kind of like statutory).  They pay for black and white 65-character line (spaces included).  Hope that helps.

Every 10 seconds of dictation is 15 lines.  If I make 100 minutes a day for radiology at 11/cpl, how much is that in 1 day?  Or is this equation incomplete?  ugh.

If you transcribe 2000 lpd you would earn $150 at 7.5 cpl/200 lph

$150 pd x 10 days in a pay period = $1500

$1500 x 2 paychecks a month = $3000 a month (most months have 21 or 22 work days in them)

Assuming you worked 8 hours a day for 20 days in a month, your hourly rate is $18.75 for every hour worked.

I get the impression this is clinic work not acute care.  It is harder to do 2000 lpd consistently on acute care, but not so with clinic after getting accustomed to the account.  I don't know anything about this company.  I'm just making an observation.

I make .075 cpl.  New ISR rate for me 0.46875 (less than 5 cpl).

11001 lines at my current rate = $1045.09

11001 lines at my new ISR rate = $735.69

Net LOSS per WEEK if my production doesn't change= $309.40

Provided of course, I can even GET that many lines to type.  I can't any more.  I have NSA as I type this.  There's not enough work NOW.  No matter how fast you get at ISR, if there's no work to type, you make NADA! 

16 hours a day at $50 dollars an hour times 6 days equals 4800 a week times 52 weeks equals 250,000 a year.   But if you take 16 hours times 6 days x 52 weeks equals 4992 hours which if you divide that by your 100 K = $20 per hour.  Not bad.  And if you make 250,000 but only have 100,000 after taxes why work that hard for less than 50% of the pay. 

roughly a difference of 15.5% - I say 'roughly' because I did the count on Word and have been told Word does not give an accurate count - but used same program for the whole document and figured several ways....