not unless margins are 2.5+ inches

• Question about pay rate... - NOLA
  • There is a company out there paying .10 per - 78 character line.....
    • by my calculations, 10/78 character is equal to 8.33/65 characters - nm - anon
  • not unless margins are 2.5+ inches - Georgia MT
  • It's all in the margins and format - annabanana
    • Pay Rate - debidog

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when comparing a gross line count to a character count, but my goodness, .23 a line sounds like it cannot possibly be true.  My gross lines accounts don't convert that way at all.  One doc has a 1-inch margin and her gross line count is just slightly above the 65-character count because she doesn't do lists and keeps her PX in paragraph format.  If you are being told it converts to .23 a line, I would wonder if most of the whole report is indented half-way across the page.  Maybe you hit upon a gold mine!   Ask about the format...

When working in DOS and using macros and templates to the max, I was getting $2.60/page (1 inch margins and Times font).  This wasn't so many years ago.  At the same time I also worked for Signal (pre-MDI) at 11 cpl.  I had a better per hour average with ppp.  More recently with the same company when we moved to Windows and used Word, some of the clients began asking to get more on the page in order to keep down chart bulk.  It is amazing how much more can be placed on a page with these changes.  The MTSO had to renegotiate payment with the offices because it was effectively taking a pay cut, and the MT pay was changed to 65 per line.  It still worked out to a minimum of $2.60/page. 

I would say that $3.50 per page is going to be competitive with your MDI pay, but most likely not a better deal, especially if the platform is not as user friendly.

nm