how many lines per day and per hour do most companies expect/want you to type for full time? thanks

• how many lines per day and per hour do most companies expect/want you to type for full time? thanks - minmin
  • I can answer in part for 2 companies: - Busy MT'ing
    • question... - no name
      • Minimums - Busy MT'ing
        • Thanks. - no name
  • typically 1000-1200 /d nm - ntk
    • If gross lines average is 1500 nm - BayGirl
      • The gross line has left the building..nm - ggg
        • What's that supposed to mean? nm - ??
          • Means gross line is a good way to get paid, but is rarely offered anymore. nm - Sad MT
            • it's rarely offered anymore, thanks to the - Snow Bunny
          • I second that - Romey

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employee (not IC) for a national?

That right there is an incredible feat of fingerin'! 

Meditech didn't work with my particular short cut program and the lag time was absolutely unbearable, not to mention all the demographic screens to wade through before getting to actually type the report.  I absolutely hate using "F" keys, which leads to more finger fatigue, and the Meditech I used was full of them.  Honestly though, I can't remember if it was "Magic" or the other version of Meditech, as it's been at least a couple of years now. 

I do know, however, that I was able to produce 1500/lines per 8-hour day as a matter of course with one word-based program and with Meditech, it dropped down into the 900 range.  It was financially and mentally devastating for me, but again, my experience.

I am a seasoned MT who back in the day 2000 lines was nothing to achieve.  I sat for 8 straight hours, barring potty breaks and 30-minute lunch.  But now that I am pushing 50, I can hardly stay in the chair 2 hours at a time.  I have set my goal at 1600 lines per day as that is what my employer pays 9.5 cpl for.  If I drop below that, my cpl drops also.   In addition, I have a backup up IC position with another company (to compensate when I run out of work on my FT job)  that pays 10 cpl.  I type 2 hours  on that account  (usually at night) and get 600 lines per day.  Fabulous account, fabulous "internet software" everything is right at your fingertips, and they count spaces, headers and footers.   Actually both jobs count spaces.

My advice to anyone wanting to get more lines- first and foremost priorty is check out the software the company uses.  If it is not user-friendly... forget it.  There was this one company who paid 10 cpl, and I could hardly get 500 lines in a 2-hour period.  They said they counted spaces, but it was hard to tell, and they surely did not count footers or headers.

working for HS and was put on an account for just a while.  This was a surgery center with colonoscopies and ophthalmologic procedures.  There were normals out the *&#)@ and 400 an hour was very easy.  I ended up quiting HS due to the fact they took that account and gave it to a girl that had been caught cherrypicking..  The work was "sporadic" and later found out why...she was taking the best dictators with the most canned text and grabbing them before anyone else. 

So, it can be done, but I think only with extensive use of normals and expanders. 

Okay, I have a doctors account and he is an ESL, but I have been been on his account for a few month and have no problem understanding him.  His files are all usually fairly short 1-2 minutes, and I have lots of normals for him.  I just cant seem to pull in many lines per hour on him.  I feel like I zoom through them, but I am always amazed to see what I am pulling for lines after an hours work.  Do you think my problem could be the short files?  Is it easier to pull in more lines on longer dictations, since you dont have to keep switching to the next dictation?  He does talk SLOW as well. 

Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer.

Evidently you are only averaging about 100 lines per hour, if I can't do 300 lines per hour it isn't worth my time.  Especially if you are using templates, expanders, etc. you need to up towards 200 to 300 llines per hour.   So that is not a fast typist to me.

I hope someone can help me on this one.  I have a neighbor whom I've known for about a year and she has been doing transcription for about 5 years--I've been doing it for 8.  I can type about 95 wpm and average about 350 lph.  However, she says that she is able to do about 600-800 lph with the help of her expansion software (no voice recognition).  I don't want to insult her intelligence by asking to see her paycheck, but is this high of a line count even possible??

She and I both work for small transcription companies (not the same ones), so we both have the advantage of having our own accounts that we share with no one else (same dictators all day, every day).  Because of this, I know that we do share the ability to get higher line counts than most.  (And no voice recognition.)

I have not yet installed my expansion software that I have had for months, so I've only been using what is built into Microsoft Word.  My neighbor was trying to convince me how important it is that I start using one immediately.  I agree that I need to start using it, but I just find it really hard to believe that she can hit anywhere near 800 lines per hour!

Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?  Is it possible?  Should I now set my goals a little higher??

Hi, I'm sure this has been touched upon before, but here is my question.  I work for a large acute care hospital at home that requires 60,000 characters (60-character line) per day, doing basic 4 with all-in-all good dictators.  I have worked there for 13 years.  I recently acquired two IC accounts, one neurology and one child psychiatrist (both excellent dictators).  I also got hired on by a national company that doesn't have a line quota and are flexible with the hours I type.  I am wanting to know how much you all can type (character/line count) per hour.  I am trying to plan my day of typing by how much time to spend on each account.  I feel there are days that I just can't get anywhere.  I use ShortHand word expander.  I'm just looking for a baseline to go by here.  Thanks for ya'lls help here.