Offered a position paying 9 cents per 65 line without spaces with headers and footers.
Posted By: Kat on 2006-12-31
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Is this a good deal?
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11 cpl, 65 line w/spaces. No headers/footers except
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9 cpl, 65 characters per line, spaces, headers, footers included. employee status. nm
Want to get paid for headers, footers and spaces?
Just in a silly mood.... 
11-1/2 cpl, 65 ccl, all spaces, headers, footers, etc. NE part of country. nm
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I stand corrected. Sorry, did not mean to say gross. Rather, 65 cpl with spaces, headers, footers.
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Is it customary to count headers/footers in this business when doing line counts? Thanks. nm
depends if includes headers, spaces, one or the other, character line, etc.
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they offered me 1.5 cents per line
thanks but no thanks.
offered 6 cents a line
I was offered 6 cents a line just recently and I have 15 years of experience. That's what I started out at way back then - i think most would agree that the money is just not there in MTing anymore - at least all of the grvy jobs are long gone - gone to india.
I get it. They are paying the indians 1 or 2 cents a line,
which isn't much to us but it is to them, and then they just pay QA people a few cents more a line to edit the crap that comes back (probably no worse than correcting some ASR) and there ya go. $$$$$
10 cents/line 65 char. w/spaces,
Small company (about 7 of us, I'm the only part-timer) Acute care, mix of dictators, 1 year part-time experience.
As a company, I have no problem paying 10 cents a line. Why is it that you do?
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headers and footers
I just read in the MPCount info that it does not count headers and footers. Is that a bad sign?
Not OP, but I get paid for headers and footers.
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And most often headers, footers, & copies are not
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most companies don't pay for headers, footers, cc. (nm)
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Usually it's the software not counting headers/footers, or any of the
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headers, footers, word count
I am an newbie IC and just started a new Dr. when I realized that MS word does not count headers and footers with word count. Any way you can include headers/footers in the word count or do you have to count it all separately and then add them together?
I would say that if you are typing headers and footers for free, i.e. not getting paid for them,
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Headers and Footers can carry on to the rest of the pages.
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Not included. Demos and ccs are headers/footers. Not counted. nm
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Oh absolutely! I would get 9 or 10 lines of headers and footers per report on Cottage. sm
So, if you do the math, if I typed 25 reports that day, that makes a total of 250 LINES I no longer get paid for! I truly believe DQS is just a sneaky, smart way that MQ has come up with in order to squeeze line counts and money from under us. Think about it. It is!!! No doubt in my mind, ladies!!
I want to quit to freakin bad this DQS crap! I am making so much more LESS money on DQS it isn't even funny. We should really smarten up about this program.
Also, how about the way you have to look up cc's and addressess and then put it into that stupid ADT field and then you DON'T GET PAID FOR IT!! MAKES ME SICK!
Okay. Done ranting and raving for the day! Let me go look for another job right now.
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could be short reports and getting paid for headers/footers in a 10-hour day.
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I tried Slycount and it didnt count the text in headers and footers
I tried Slycount and it didn't count the text in headers and footers after the 1st page. Apparently its a problem with upgraded versions of MS word 2003 and there isn't a fix yet for this problem. If you don't use headers and footers than its a good program. I currently use Spellex AccuCount and its great :). I believe they have a free trial on there website. I Hope this helps :)
Maybe if it is gross lines, lots of headers and footers and normals......sm
Other than that, I really can't imagine it.
I get 10 cpl, spaces, headers, etc. as an employee. Sure ICs will get
offered more because you have to pay your own taxes and there are no benefits. 9 cpl isn't that good for an IC though. It might be for a clinic count because they are more hum-drum accounts where you have the same doctors and can make lots of normals so you can get more lines, but if you are doing acute care it isn't a very good rate. A good rate with mostly good dictators is hard to find these days.
I have been offered a position yet...sm
But I have an interview with them this week. Not sure what I'll do either, especially given the time clock. That's a real issue for me. I have a baby at home and can't imaging trying to clock in and out every time he starts to fuss.
I also sent a resume to Medware too, just to cover my bases, but I just sent it this weekend and haven't heard anything yet.
As for you not hearing back from FN last week after sending a resume to them, I seriously doubt they are hiring right now given they recently overhired and the workflow is so low. Thus the reason I've been floating resumes all week. LOL!!!
Just offered an IC position at 7 cpl, lol....
Could be worse, I saw one advertise at 6 cpl
I was offered a position with them a couple of
months ago. I don't remember much about what they offered, but the pay wasn't very good. I have 20 years' experience and what they offered me was an insult.
I basically was offered a position..
She said I did excellent on the test. She asked to let them know how many minutes I would want, FT or PT, which I did, and haven't heard a thing since.
ALL TYPE - OFFERED POSITION
Hello - I posted a week or so ago - never heard anything back. Does anyone have information, good or bad, about ALL TYPE ??? 
Please, I'd like to know more as I am thinking of taking this position. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks All 
Just got offered a 3rd shift position and
because of the time difference they told me I could work 2 hours earlier. I have also seen ads posted stating that if you are on different coasts you could have some flexibility in the hours you work. It isn't your local time that they go by, it is their local time or the clients.
I too have been offered every position I've
tested for and I'm not a CMT. I think the years of experience and doing well on tests is what gets you the job.
need more info - what kind of transcription, geographic, charge for spaces, headers
etc.
Opps! I meant to say I *haven't* been offered a position yet..nm
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My line including spaces is 65 characters. I've heard that not counting spaces
takes away over 35% of your line count. I believe it too because you have at least 15 or so spaces on each line that you type. Use your first sentence up top as an example; you had 77 char and 21 spaces - in that line that would be a little less than 30% of your characters that you didn't get paid for. I don't think it's worth it and wouldn't want to work without getting credit for my spaces.
Paying for spaces vs. Not
So, I've been offered a position at .11 cents a line, but they don't pay for spaces. They do, however, have templates set up with lots of headers there that they do pay for. I am currently making 0.95 cents a line and get paid for spaces, but not headers.
What's the bottom line when it comes down to how much you make - anyone know? I can figure this out, but thought if someone had been through this and checked it, it'd be a little easier. Thanks!
I have forty plus years experience and was offered 7 cents.
Of course, I told them to go jump. I just retired and stayed home.
Company not paying for spaces nm
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paying for spaces question, sm
when the company says you get paid for spaces, shouldn't that mean all spaces you type? where i work, we get paid for spaces; however, i noticed recently that in our system when viewing old reports for questions that all the double spaces was changed to single spaces. i am talking about like two spaces between each sentence. i know the system is changing it as i also looked up reports that i, myself, typed and i always double space. not really sure if they are counted in our line counts or not as the system does our line counts, but i am gonna try to play with it and see if i can figure it out.
my question is, is this standard to change the double spaces to single spaces? i am thinking maybe the acct requires that but our specifics say to double space in between sentences. sounds to me like a way to cheat us out of some line count; what do you think?
If the companies are paying for spaces, yes. nm
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MQ not paying for spaces -- just manually counted and it don't add up
anyone know? Just went from straight line count to DQS...
used to type 500 lph, now barely 150 lph....
AND NO COUNT FOR SPACES....
DAMMIT, THAT'S A KEY STROKE
We're paying 9 cpl and everything transcribed plus spaces is paid for.
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The company cutting cpl, the company stopping paying for headers
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I think someone told me to subtract 1.25 cents for no spaces - not sure nm
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8 cents with spaces not very good for acute care ic sm
clinic work maybe okay for 8 cpl
It absolutely is a way to cut an MT's line count since most companies don't pay for headers,
footers, and anything in the template. This one of the BIG reasons why I decided to give up working for the nationals. I bit the bullet and went back to work in the office for a while and then finally I found a job with a hospital that allows me to work at home, pays me hourly plus incentive, and doesn't try to cheat me out of my line count.
I just always felt like I was working my rear end off lining the pockets of the MTSO's while they nickeled and dimed me to death!
That's my 0.02 cents worth!
Yes if gross line or 65 character line with spaces....Good Deal!!! nm
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What is the average line/hour for a 65 character line with spaces? NM
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$.06 gross line / .70 = approximately $.0857 cents per 65 character line.
A gross line is anything on a line versus 65 gross characters per net line the other way. You make more money working for the gross line than for the 65 gross character line, as long as the line rate's OK.
New England, 16.50/hr, 8 cents a line after minimum line count..
full benefits available with general contribution by the hospital before you start paying for them, retirement, 403b, all benefits, and working at home as an employee, BUT, you have to live local to the hospital.
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