Oh my!!!

I was doing a very small clinic in Aventura, Florida,  (North Miami Beach area), and was getting 11 cpl back in 2000 and 2001.  They loved my work and had no complaints whatsoever about the charges and, believe me, I charged for everything; anything over 21 characters was a line; all other lines were based on 65 characters, including spaces; in other words, each line typed on a page was counted as a line. Then I moved to Virginia; he talked me into trying to do his work while up there; then he had to get used to the digital voice dictation, we both had to buy the programs and turned out to be too much trouble. 

If I remember correctly, (senior moments here at my age), 6 cpl was about the going rate back in the late 1970s.  I agree with another poster you certainly cannot raise your rates all at once to reach the industry average but you could have a meeting with the "powers that be" at that clinic.  Let them know that for all this time you have been transcribing their work for half the price as any other service.  Try to raise you rates by 2 to 3 cents per line; I'm sure they will go for the 2 cpl increase; let them know that q 6 months the rates will increase by 1/2 cpl until you reach 10 cpl.  Of course, you will have to feel them out before you speak too strongly on the matter; however they could not hire an inhouse person or any another service and even come close to what you charge.  You DO have the upper hand here....I would assume they are happy with your work.  Go for it.  You have starved long enough.  You are definitely talking third world country wages here. 

• Help with rate increase, please - Reba
  • Considering the high cost of living in..... - SM
    • More on high cost of living... - No. Cali MT
      • That may be true for No. Cal. (sm) - So. Cal. MT
  • Oh my!!! - andromeda
  • Even 8 cpl is WAY too low, but since you were only - My 2 cents

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