For me, a very small local MTSO

• Now many lines are there in an average page? - just wondering, nm
  • Old school - Patti
    • Oooooo -- that's even worse! nm - wondering
  • Think it's around 40 without header or footer info, pg. #s, etc. but - not positive. nm
    • So when I'm making $2.50 per page, I'm -sm - just wondering
      • Depends on length of page - Sammy
      • What about the pages where you only type a few lines? - sm
        • What company - lb
          • For me, a very small local MTSO - sm
          • Oh..... - lb
          • Not company - it was a private firm's offer. nm - wondering
        • dunno -- WAS considering the offer, but not now. - wondering
          • I'd take it and I make 9 cents - Sammy
            • I divided 54 lines by $2.50, & got less and 4 cpl. nm - wondering (but not good at math)
              • And don't forget you have to divide the character count by 65 :) - nm
              • Oops! Other way around: divided $2.50 by 54 lines! - wondering (but not good at math)

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I worked for a small company and although I did get paid by the line, I made way more than $16 an hour and could pretty much name my own hours to work. I did, however, have to pick up tapes!

is worth.  I'm done.   

and I spend most of my time counting the spelling errors when I read it.  The best one was the headline one November that proclaimed - HAPPY THANKGSIVING.  Did I mention this is a FREE paper. I would never pay for something like that.

Another one I saw a number of years ago, mirrow instead of mirror. And one time at my old job at a manufacturing plant, they were taking a bus trip to some shopping "outlits."

I am a teacher's kid and stuff like that really bugs me.  Good thread by the way!

I would determine how much per line the seasoned MT should get.  Not sure how much you charge.  But I, being a small MTSO, charge my clients 14 cpl and I pay my subcontractors 10.  Ideally you would be a bigger MTSO and could pay truly seasoned MTs 12 cpl or something on that order.  Otherwise, if they aren't able to make a decent line rate, and they are truly good MTs, they might as well go get their own accounts.

About the pay between the new MTs/mentoring MTs - I would decide what the total you were going to pay for those lines were, and then divide it between seasoned MT and newbie MT.  Say it's 12 cpl - pay the newbie 8 cpl and the seasoned MT 4 cpl for the work that the newbie does that the seasoned MT is helping with.

My husband's company does something similar.  He works with a partner, but the partner is less experienced.  He is basically my DH's helper.  DH uses his own truck and the helper doesn't have to use his truck.  Each job pays a set amount, and DH gets 70% and his partner gets 30%.

was never afraid of not getting paid. Something in her voice told me I could trust her and just dove in. No contract, either. But I did have to give her my SSN for the 1099.

Never realized I would be setting myself up for trouble but every 2 weeks the check came in the mail.

Ask the MTSO. That's all you can do.

I as a small MTSO would be so embarassed to offer 6 cpl to anyone.  Could not believe what I read.   At the most I take  20 - 25% of what I charge clients and pay the IC the 80%.  I even do the pick up, QA, billing and delivery of finished products.  But to offer 6 cpl is a slap in the face.  Even newbies I offer 7.5 to 8 cpl and start them on the easiest accounts.   Hopefully she can sleep at night and look at her face in the mirror.  

Or do you prefer typing in your own Word program and emailing encrypted files?  Do you prefer to use C-phone to access the dictation, or wav pedal?  I'm seriously thinking it might be better to use a platform where MTs can go online to access the dictation and the platform to type into and I am looking for ones that MTs like and consider MT friendly.  So...what have you used and which ones do you like best?  I did do a search, but I'm asking again.  Obviously, being a small MTSO some of the larger platforms might be beyond my reach, but I'm looking for opinions.

He uses Word and my company uses WP5.1.   He sent me some templates and I can pull those up, but there is some header information with patient name, etc. that is shaded gray and I can't get to that to enter the information and I don't know enough about Word to know what to do at this point.  The MTSO knows even less about Word than I do and the MT that did the account is out for surgery. 

I hope I'm making sense and someone can tell me what to do or what to go to look for the information.   I've done straight typing in Word using templates previously and I have not had to do any formatting, so this is all new to me.

her business is, no matter when (or IF) the MTSO is paid by the client.  I would NEVER contract with an MTSO that expected me to wait to be paid until they were paid by their client.  Impossible way to do business, very unprofessional.