If you figure out the math, 135 words equals 12.5 lines a minute...sm
Posted By: oldtimer on 2009-07-21
In Reply to: typing speed - Speedtyper
12.5 lines a minute equals 750 lines an hour. Anybody make that?
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60 minutes equals 600 lines?
I just saw an ad on the job board that said 60 minutes of dictation equals 600 lines in their estimation. In my experience 60 minutes of dictation is between 800 and 1000 lines. Anybody else care to comment on this?
60 minutes equals 600 lines
In ShortHand class we learned that the average person speaks at 160 wpm x 5 characters/word = 800 characters/minute / 65-character line - 12.31 lines/minute x 60 minutes = 738.6 lines per hour. Of course, they may dictate more slowly as they study a case, but they may dictate much more quickly if it is routine work.
1200 lines at 3 cpl equals 36 bucks
You can work at 7-11 for that kind of money.
10 lines per minute = 1500 lines for 150 minutes - average. nm
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perhaps math is your problem. 375 lines/hour x 0.08 = 30.00. totally doable.
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How do we figure when they say 1-1/2 lines ^outside^ of your scheduled hours
Is that your lines, i.e. 500 lines x1/2 = 750 lines total.
Is that what 1-1/2 lines mean? Confusing. How in the world can we tell if we get paid for those by the line counting method we use, Ichart?
I get paid 8 cpl with 1 minute = 10 lines
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That's why I quit MQ. I couldn't figure out how they were counting the lines. I took a big p
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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?
Don't twist my words. I said that I type 1600+ lines per day. sm
I do. My personal requirement for myself is 1600 lines, 1400 lines if I am not feeling well or have kids home without a babysitter. MOST days I type in the 2500-3000 line range. There are days I do more than that, but not many. I do not work overtime very often; I have 5 kids and it is impossible for me to do so. Don't read more into this than there is.
1.70 regular minute, 2.25 stat per minute. sm
I do all cardiology.
BTW: Notice it equals 666....er,um.
Yikes!
Equals $21.44 US dollars nm
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Work equals pay in my world
I have transcribed, supervised, managed, taught med transcription for 36+ years and never have I had to do work that I am not paid for. Of course, patient's name, etc., is part of the job but job equals pay. With DQS, we do not get paid for the demographics screen, nor to research things that we think are questionable, if the doctor gives the wrong milligrams, incorrect spelling of something, does not pronounce a disease or medication correctly, gives a wrong lab value..we double check and what I do is send the hospital a note. However, we do not get paid for any of that either. I cant imagine you are trying to tell me I should be doing work and not get paid for it. Let me ask you, what man in the business world would accept that? Try telling someone working in an office, come in one hour early each day to work but dont punch in until an hour later. DQS, the way I was trained, was supposed to have the MR# and pts name keyed in and all we did was click on it. Not so in real life transcribing. We pay to update our computers, we pay anything over $30.00 for DSL, we paid for the earphones and foot pedal, we pay for our electricity, we do research to make sure the report is correct for free, we fill out demographics for free. Seems like someone is getting screwed and it isnt MQ. All the hospitals in my area have outsourced. If any one of them ever went back inhouse, I would be there in a heart beat.
in my world, 60 minutes of dictation usually equals
Definitely need the Sted's Derm&Immuno Words and a Path&Lab Words to do derm. Lots of weirdness!
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100% equals perfect (?), not that I care, I was defending the other poster...
you post you have 100% quality consistently for 5 years - anyone who brags or throws out that kind of information is open for criticism.
I have no interest in typos on this board and never think less of anyone, only when they are making statements like the one you made, then I feel the poster had a legitimate comment.
Sted's Ortho Words, a lab words book, at least 1 drug book, and your AAMT BOS 2nd
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Do the math. How many MTs do you have that (sm)
are actual OSi employees? Also, how many of those MTs are you losing on a daily basis?
there would be math! sm
Just kidding!
do the math
I have another a/c with about 30 MDs over the period of the week. No one does 20-25 reports an hour on this one either except Sat/Sun when they are doing all chest & bone x-rays.
Perhaps some day I'll work for a place where 20-25 reports an hour can be done. For all the places I've worked that would amount to 400-500 lines/hr. perhaps even 600 in some instances.
The cardiology interventional I do on one a/c often run 100+ lines. You want to take $1.75-2.00 for that? LOL. What is that, let's see 0.0175 to .02 a line. A 40-line CT @ the low end of $0.07 line comes out to $2.80. 20-line US is $1.40. Get my drift here?
Don't tell me about how good you are at shortcuts. LOL. You should be making a decent salary with a minimum of these, and should be making the big $$ for being REALLY good at this and for being a fast typist. Not a decent salary for both.
How are you doing your math?
Are you assuming 1o words per line?
Math
1000 words x .11 cpl =$110
1000 words x .10 cpl =$100
Any more questions?
Let's do the math ...
I do work for a company that pays me half a cent more per line because I am a CMT. So every 3 years I have to spend about $300 (i.e., about $100 per year) to maintain that credential. I average around 15,000 lines per pay period. Multiply that by 0.005, and I am getting an extra $75 every 2 weeks (or $1950 per year) for being a CMT. In my case, it's well worth it.
Do the math
You say you did 2 test reports in under 10 minutes?
If you do 3 reports in 10 minutes = thats a whopping 2.10 every 30 minutes or 12.60 per hour.
4 every 10 minutes is 16.80...
etc.
math anyone??
What I do know is that 22% of each report is spaces, period. So I am not sure how 54 characters equates.
Any math whizzes out there?
Someone help me with my math...
 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.
Are you using new math?
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.
Well, I did the math for me
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!
Math ??? Not correct
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.
I did the math a few weeks ago and it is (sm)
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....
I did the math about 3 months ago and it was
a 15.5% reduction for w/o spaces - this was done on 3 reports using Word and I've been told Word counts or does not count weird things that should be counted - but I figured the same 3 reports as one large document and checked it for a 65 line with spaces, w/o spaces, refigured again on a 55 character line with and w/o for both an MT rate of pay of say 10 cpl and also on a QA line rate of say 4 cpl and it all basically came back at approximately a 15.5% reduction. I had been told before it was 17% and it might well be 17% figured on a different line counter program - but if you do the math over a 2 week period or however long your pay period is - this can make a significant difference!! Good luck.
Oops! Sorry can't do math..30%
Check out this math. LOL
Did you mean $5.50 per 1,000 words? If so, 1,000 words x 5 Keystrokes = 5,000 characters. 5,000 characters/65 cpl = 76.9 lines. $5.50/76.9 = just over $.07 cpl. It seems to be on par.
My math error, sorry. sm
But it is not for me, I don't want to do 2000 lines a day, 250 lines an hour, for 7.5/lines for $150. bucks. Burn out. Nobody should have to work like that to make a living not with the junk dictation.
but ya all go ahead..
No my math is fine
Actually my math is fine, been working with industry standards a long time :)
average 10 words per line
AVERAGE
and i'm no longer an MTSO. just a grunt who's happy to be one
Wow, sounds like someone's been doing their math homework.
I bet you grabbed your calculator immediately after you read her post and started punching in numbers. LOL! And you all talk about Happy OSi'er having too much time on her hands? You apparently have plenty of time on yours too. Get a life!
Correct my math if I am wrong....
I have calculated that 22% (on average) of a report is spaces (by manual count). So...if we have to cut out half of the spaces...that is an instant pay cut of 11%. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently they do not think we are capable of doing the math.
The math is there and it is not pretty!
I've never been good at doing the math... SM
Thanks for doing it for me. The definitely is way too low.
Fuzzy math. A 40% cut in pay is not offset by a 40% increase
in production.
To break even in this picture, you would have to have a much greater increase in production. IF you currently do 2000 lines a day at 8 cpl, and your new "blended" rate pays 4.8 cpl, you would have to do 3,334 lines to break even, or at least a 67% increase in production. Do you all really think you can do it?
that s/b math, didn't mean to sound ugly.
Augusta Medical Transcription -- help me do the math (sm)
Augusta has a job advertised $1.25/thousand characters, 65 character line including headers and footers. So, that's equal to a little over 8 cpl -- right? I have never seen a company state pay in such a way.
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.
I am not slow, and there is no reason to attack me. Simple math says that if you sm
can type 300 lines per hour @ 9-10 cpl versus 6.5 cpl, which place would you go? If you cannot figure THAT one out, perhaps it is not me who is slow.
Ignorance is bliss and bliss equals happy nm
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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
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