I get paid 8 cpl with 1 minute = 10 lines
Posted By: nm on 2006-02-23
In Reply to: What is the going rate per minute? - CO wanting to pay by the minute
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10 lines per minute = 1500 lines for 150 minutes - average. nm
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I am paid per minute
This is the first company I have worked for that pays that way. It seems fair enough, although that is largely dependent on the dictator! There are few I transcribe for and it takes me forever to do their reports, so at those times the per minute compensation isn't so fair, but it all averages out I suppose.
Paid by the minute????
Has anyone heard of being paid by the minute? A company said they did that for the cardiology.
Anyone ever done that?
Paid by the minute...
I am paid 1.20 per dictated minute. First company I have ever worked for that paid this way.
I had a job that paid by minute
I started at $1.15 per minute and when I left, was making $1.20 per minute. I could do 150-180 minutes in 6 1/2 hours. It was very lucrative for me. It was for a small hospital. Loved it, but got bored with the same doctors every day, so left. Now I work for a national and only make 1/3rd what I was making, but am happy with the work. Just wish the pay was better.
I am paid by the minute....
and probably average between $15-20 an hour; however, so much depends on who the dictator is, etc. I mainly do op reports and have become fairly accustomed to the dictators, but there are a few that everyone on the account will always have difficulty with and they take longer to transcribe.
Getting paid by the minute of dictation -
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I made that much being paid by the minute sm
but that's it. I don't know anybody who makes that kind of money getting 8-10 cents a line. I wish it were true, I'd be rich.
Getting paid by the minute.....how does that work??
Since I can't imagine getting paid by the minute, how does that work and what is considered a good rate?? Thanks!!!
I wish my primary paid by the minute...
No one ever seems to know what they are talking about on that account and they take FOREVER to get through a report. Some dictators will take 15 minutes to dictate a 50-line report because they are shuffling through papers looking up things or just saying umm..duh.. I also have one dictator who will repeat things constantly, sometimes repeating the same sentence 3 times! I'd be making about $5 more per hour if I were paid by the minute... This wouldn't be a good deal on my secondary account though. There are a bunch of fast talkers and mumblers on that account.
Anyone here get paid by the dictated minute?
How do you figure that out to know whether you are making decent money?
Was paid by the dictated minute at my last job...sm
...lost my a**. Company started out at $1/dictated minute and gave a 10% raise after off QA. Somehow it took 5 weeks and a lot of screaming to get off QA  . Left when they popped up with a new contract that would have cut my pay even more. Rip-off.
New job, off QA after 3 jobs. 
Anyone have a good average for getting paid by the minute?
I have never worked this way so what is a good rate for cents/audio minute?
1 minute dictation=10 lines of transcription
Every one minute of dictation equals 10 lines of transcription so a 4 minute dictation is equal to 40 lines. This is for a regular dictator but you always get the slow talkers, the uh, uh, uh dicators or the really fast ones but I've been doing this for 15 years and this is a good rule of thumb. 100 minutes of dictation is equal to 1000 lines give or take a few.
It usually is 10-12 lines typed per minute of dictation. nm
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This means editing: 15 lines pro minute,
or 1/3 of a line pro SECOND.
To keep this tempo, you cannot make a SINGLE correction.
Even READING at this tempo is almost IMPOSSIBLE.
Do you think we are dummies that you can sell this to us?
Are you a VR sales person?
Is this a live count of lines paid for or same as CTRL I that we do not get paid for ?? nm
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The company I worked for paid by the dictation minute as well. They said sm
that was the only way to know what you had transcribed, since there is already so much information there. If I remember correctly, it was something like Meditech where you are typing in the patient's actual chart. It didn't work out to be very profitable for me, but perhaps this company has a better system. The company I worked for was MedTran Unlimited or something like that. I was only part-time, but I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. After a few days, I realized it wasn't going to work out for me and so I gave my notice, and so they didn't pay me for the training or any of the work I had done. I haven't read anything bad about MD-IT, so they might work with you and make it worth your while.
Good luck. And thanks for the compliment on my doggie -- she is very much my baby. 
do you find being paid per the minute pays better than per line pay rate?
Thank you so much for your help!
If you figure out the math, 135 words equals 12.5 lines a minute...sm
12.5 lines a minute equals 750 lines an hour. Anybody make that?
Yes you DO get paid for 100 lines
ichart is correct.
Whoops that should have been lines paid nm
nm
No, for every 100 lines you type you get paid 100
The ctrl-I counts headers and footers in the line count on the Extext document. However, you get paid for what you type, not the headers which were already in place. Maybe one day there will be a perfect line counter where neither of them counts headers but for now there are two different counters, the one that comes with the Extext document itself (including headers) and the one that comes from WHAT YOU ACTUALLY TYPE AND ARE PAID FOR. How much simpler does this need to be explained? You get paid for what you type - everything you type. Period. Okay? Just because Extext counts the header doesn't mean a thing because ichart counts what you type and that is what you are paid by. So far, there is no system for Extext to NOT include the header because it is reading the entire document including the header (that you didn't put type in the first place). Extext count is wrong (although a little higher). ichart count is correct.
Got paid, but once again not for all my lines. Third time in a row
I have been shorted. I'm done.
So if you transcribe 100 lines, you dont get paid for
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You get paid for 15 lines no matter how many blanks
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You get paid 15 lines for reports with any # of blanks
If you do a full listen you get paid for all the lines. They discourage this unless the MT is on 100% proofing because they have a massive backlog. My pay was roughly half of my pay as an MT and I was one who got fired a few months ago because they were doing away with QA's in the US. Can't imagine why they are hiring for US QA's again.
Last I heard 10,000 lines PPP gets half your insurance paid.
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Company paid me 179 for 4645 lines. Whats that 3.8 cpl?
She does not seem to want to contact me about the money she owes me, either. Thirty years and 3.8 cpl. Unbelievable.  
Now that bonuses are paid by total lines per week sm
it doesn't matter what your LPH total is, so you can stay clocked in or out for those little things, as you choose.
1.70 regular minute, 2.25 stat per minute. sm
I do all cardiology.
Training on the system, not paid, but if you are physically typing reports then you are getting paid
nm
Oh, yea -- PAID, too. Grandmother PAID LEAVE would be a great drawing card to TT !!
Just love that PAID TIME OFF !!
Any company that makes you wait to get paid until they get paid by the client
is not a company you want to get involved with. That's part of being an MTSO, figuring out how to cover your payroll while waiting to get paid. I would stay away!
1800 lines is easily achieved. I average 300-340 lines per hour. nm
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I average 1200-1400 lines per day with a national, and am only getting around 600-800 lines per day.
It's been this way since the day before Thanksgiving. I've been doing this for almost 30 years now, and more often than from Thanksgiving until the new year is the slowest time of the year. I have some months where I am swamped with up to 2000 lines per day. I stash that little extra money, and take advantage of a handful of extremely slow days this time of the year to actually cook dinner, decorate for Christmas, or do Christmas shopping. I actually anticipate this slow time every year and have grown to enjoy the breathing time. Any time I have attempted to pick up extra work with another company to supplement these slow times, the minute I get adjusted to the new accounts, etc. I have no time to finish all of my work because my full time job with national gets slammed again. Hang in there if you can, and hopefully your work will pick up significantly around New Years.
They work with you to make sure you get the lines required or the amount of lines you want...
I have never had a problem getting more work
Me too.. the outsourced company was paid for and paid me for headers, but OSI does/did not.
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I have always paid yearly and have never paid or been assessed a penaltly. nm
nm
Be glad you get paid tomorrow. We are paid on the 1st and the 15th, so sm
since the 1st is on a weekend, we don't get paid until Monday. It will happen again on the 15th of August …sigh. It is the only thing I do not like about the company, though, so I guess a few weekends of poverty a year is not too much.
Minimum lines for FT used to be 60,000 keystrokes a day, about 925 lines. Pay was good. Just not a
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Yes it is possible to double your lines. I cant type 460 lines an hour but I can get those with VR
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per minute
I get paid per minute of dictation. $1.00 to 1.35 per minute. 100-120 minutes in an 8 hour shift is average or 16-20 minutes of dictation per hour.
pay by the minute
I also used to work this way. I worked in house by the hour and we had a quota of dictated minutes we were supposed to meet. Then we started doing it at home and were compensated by the minute. It was awesome! Unfortunately they went with voice recognition and it came to a tragic end. I still miss it. I get paid by the line now and make probably a third less at least than back then. So very sad. Anyone have any idea if this company is hiring for radiology and what they pay per minute? TIA.
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too heated.
If pay comes out to 1.00, or less per minute is very low...sm
1.25 and up would be good pay per minute... and 200 per day if quite a bit to get through on an average. Good luck!
Pay per minute...
I work for a hospital that pays us per minute of dictation. It is the entire dictation, whether the doc is sitting thinking, talking to someone else in the room or whatever, a 14 minute report is billed as a 14 minute report. The pay scale I make is $1.30 per minute after 450 minutes, under 450 minutes $1.25 per minute. I am sure the hospital itself charges more than that per minute, so I guess it would depend on whether you have your own account or are considering working for a hospital or other company.
Pay per minute...
It is absolutely more lucrative than by the line for me anyway. I almost went bankrupt working for 8 cpl.
More like $1.00 - to 1.25 per minute
Keep in mind the 3 x rule: For every minute of dictation, it takes roughly 3 minutes to transcribe. So if you want to earn $20/hr (example) you have to charge $1.00 per minute. If you factor in even 5 minutes and hour for taxes/interruption/breaks etc., you need to bump it to $1.25 to clear $20/hr.
It says pay is 0.85 per minute.
Seems kind of low to me.
By the minute vs. cpl.......
I was at a meeting the other day where 2 docs were discussing paying their MTs by the minute versus by the line. It was the first I, personally, had heard of such a thing. The more I thought about it, the more appealing it sounded to me to be paid by the minute, particularly after I had to listen to a resident literally eat their way through a 37 minute dictation, which ultimately yielded me only about 62 lines. I was furious! I would have at least been paid for my time on that report had I been paid by the minute to transcribe it. I am sure it all balances out in the end, whether one is paid by the line or the minute, considering some docs fly through their dictation without even taking a breath or bothering to enunciate or structure an intelligent sentence. I would love to hear from any MTs who are, in fact, being paid by the minute.
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