I used to
Posted By: AnnuderMT on 2009-06-12
In Reply to: can you make decent money straight typing for .08 cpl? - no work in FL
As somebody else noted, there are a lot of other factors. But back in what I think of as the 'Glory Days' of transcription, I worked for a small company making 8 cents a line as a statutory. I didn't share accounts with anyone, and I had sole responsibility for 3 different accounts, 2 of which were fairly small. My hours weren't set; it was simply that the accounts had 24 hours turnaround so I worked until clear. Some days that meant 6 hours and sometimes it meant 12. However, because it was a finite group of doctors, a lot of it was almost intuitive from the familiarity, and I still think PRD was a much better Expander than most that are floating around now (and this was typing in MultiMate...anybody else old enough to remember that?!?). Back in those days I made $60+K a year, transcribing 2500 lines a day average, but I must also point out that back in those days, it was actual line counts, not character strokes divided by 65.
Unfortunately, in that gig the accounts eventually went elsewhere and new ones came in, which still were okay but not quite as good, until about 3 years ago they had dried up to pretty much nothing (the company was attempting to go in a different direction anyway, away from medical transcription).
I'd love to find that situation again, though, and would jump on it in a heartbeat. There was a certain joy in just having my thing to do, plenty of it that hadn't been cherry-picked over, and a true ability to set my own schedule and work around life instead of what has become trying to squeeze life in around work.
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