350 lines in 8 hours?
Posted By: sm on 2006-03-22
In Reply to: How much lines per hour? - Paul Anthony
That really isn't much. You should be spending time when you aren't working studying *grammar* and such. I am a newbie, have been at this since January, and can get at least 150 lph. So far I am able to get about 9,000 lines per pay period...that's 10 days. Not trying to bash you or anything, but it sounds like you really need some practice. Websites like www.rxlist.com are great for drug names as well.
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Hours for MTs
Working from home is really no different than working in an office or hospital as far as the hours are concerned. The only difference is that you are on your own and must be able to perform the same duties. Would you apply to a company or hospital and ask them if you can pick you own hours? Probably not. As a home MT, you can choose what shift you prefer, if available, but it is still a work environment, and you are expected to be there, in the chair, doing the work the same as if you were in a hospital or office setting. That is why you see shifts/hours advertised. Companies need to know that the work will be completed and returned to the client in a timely fashion to the client's satisfaction. It's still a JOB, even if you are at home.
Hours
Michelle, if you are an independent contractor, you can generally set your own hours/days/shift; however, if you are an employee, you must work the hours/days/shifts your employer wants you to work. Of course, as an employee you get benefits, too.
Also, IMHO, VLC is a better program than AHP.
Hours
I work at home and I decide what hours I work as long as my work is back within 24 hours. That doesn't mean I can goof off all day and not do my work, I have to discipline myself and have scheduled times to work. You do have freedom, and thats why I love it, but you do have to work also.
I don't look at the hours
I look at the line count because productivity in this kind of job is based on the line count. Also, as you gain experience your hours spent on an account will decrease, that is if you retain the same volume over time.
Based on other experienced MTs, they usually do not keep just one account, so if you have time in your hands, try to get another account to make up for the slow periods.
Also looking for PT 20 hours. Please sm
If you take that job and they still have open positions, could you please share with me the company? I have been looking for PT IC work like you mentioned. Thank you!
hours?
So how many hours of work do approximately get in per day? And how many hours of sleep do you get at night?
Do you really set your own hours?
I have heard that MT's (working from home) set their own hours to work... and then I have also heard that you have specific set hours that you work. Which one is right? Or do you have a deadline that you must get your work in by?
Thanks for clearing up the confusion!
Along the same lines
I went to a Community College in my city and received my MT certification. Most of my classes were online (only one class required me to go to campus). I could have opted to take them on campus, but because of my other obligations at the time, online was easier for me. I was hired by a national right out of school.
lines
Dont feel bad I am fairly new too. 7 months. I don't know exactly how many lines per hour I can do but I don't think it is even 150.
500 lines per day?
I was wondering about how long it takes to type 500 lines per day. I am just starting as a transcriptionist, and they want me to type at least 500 lines per day. Is this a lot?
500 lines
I am also a newbie. 500 lines isn't really a lot. It is possible even as a newbie to do that. As a newbie your first few days or week on an account you may not get 500 until you learn what you are doing. But then 500 is easily possible.
how many lines
How many lines do you put out per pay period??
lines
I think you need to specify the pay period. One week, two weeks, a month?
I am a new MT. I have only been working for 6 weeks. I get paid every two weeks. My first pay period was 3500 lines, second was 3000 (I went on vacation), and my third, which ended yesterday, was 7400. I expect that by the beginning of the summer I will be up to 1000/day, 5000/week, and 10000/pay period.
But I also have children who need to be picked up from school, and I cannot exactly get a bunch of work done while they are home, nor do I want to. I am not sure how things will go this summer. I may have to work at night while they are sleeping.
lines
how many lines per pay period???
# of lines
What is an average number of lines per day for a new MT (typing 60 WPM)?
On average, how long (in minutes) is the typical dictation?
# of lines
I realize I will be stopping to look up words for whatever reason and that it won't be straight typing without interruptions. I was just trying to get a ball park figure, that's all. Thanks anyway
500 lines
If it is ASR it should only take about 1-1/2 hours or less. If it is regular transcription it should take a little longer.
Lines
Lines are counted different ways. Sometimes they are counted gross lines, sometimes 65-character lines, sometimes 65 characters without spaces. You should really ask your teacher how they would like you to count them. I do not think that blank lines would count though.
Lines
Build your expansions, that is the key. After many years at this, I am still adding expansions almost every day. A split keyboard also helped me as the poster below suggested. I also started out very slow also. Don't worry, you will get there.
My very first day as an MT I did 667 lines. I had had no
MT training, wasn't a fast typist, had no expander.
You can't compare number of reports because reports vary. If you are doing clinic note they are usually short. If you are doing acute care history and physicals they can be quite lengthy, same with consults. I can do 40 reports one day and only do 28 reports the next, but still get the same number of lines both days.
As a newbie you should do the best you can and not worry about what everyone else is doing.
Or more lines as indicated below - nm
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Hours / MT training
Has anyone here done at home professions MT course? Is it legit?
Also why do the job posting have set days and hours MT's have to work. I thought if you worked at home you could pick your own hours? Can someone clarify this for me
Thanks
MT schools & job hours
Does anyone know anything about an online school called Future MTs? Also, when working at home is it possible to get jobs that allow you to work whatever hours you want or is it mainly shift work?
My work hours...
I have a 3 y/o and an 8 m/o, both girls. They go to a 5 hour, 4 day a week program. This allows me a 4 1/2 hour block to go to the clinic, pick up tapes, and go back home and type uninterrupted for awhile. I pick them up and I don't work again until they go to bed at approximately 8:00 pm, then I work until I'm done, usually around 11:00 or 11:30. I sleep until 5:00 am, when I get up and do it all again. My oldest gets up on her own about 6-6:30 am and the youngest gets up whenever her tummy wakes her.
I have only had this job for just over a month now, and I love it. My old job was a full on work in the office 8 hours a day, 5 days a week job. So I almost feel like I'm on vacation now with the flexibility that I so desired all along.
I hope you can work something out for you and your kids where you can all be rested and happy.
Take care.
What hours/days are you available. sm
Please email me with your the above info and where you received your education.
You need to break more often than every 2 hours
straight. That won't be good for your body and you'll burn out easy.
Again, most places will allow you the time to get comfortable with your dictators. Don't try to be too fast and make mistakes because that won't be worth it at all to either you or your new employer. That shows sloppiness. JMO.
Hours you worked
Starting as an IC, did that mean you were able to determine the hours you worked in a day? For example, I would like to work early morning part-time and finish in later evening and night. Is that something that was common to do as an IC, or do you have to give them a detail of the hours you are working?
anywhere from 3-4 hours for me (6 if it is horrible)- nm
xxx
Make your own hours?
absolutely not.. that's a myth..
I would not take less than $48 as 60 minutes is est. at 600 lines - sm
$48 would be .08 a line. Granted he is giving you 48 hours to do it, and it will take anywhere from 3-6 hours to do depending on degree of difficulty, if you have to look up addresses, Dr. spelling, etc. All that SLOWS you WAY DOWN. $40 is only .066 a line IF it comes out to 600 lines, granted if it is less than that you make more $$$, but if more than 600 lines (say he is a fast talker) then you will get reamed. I'd get a sample first before you agree to anything. Good luck.
How much lines per hour?
Thanks everybody for providing me information few days ago, but I still dont get it how a new MT can type 75 to 100lph because I am able to type hardly 350 lines in 8 hours, this is after the correction i mean grammer, trying to find drug names, etc.
How *many* lines per hour...do you have a
nm
My very first day I typed something like 150 lines
for 8 whole hours. My supervisor looked at the line count and made the clerk do a re-count, lol, surely they made a mistake! Nope, it was me. By the end of four months I was off of hourly training pay and on incentive doing about 1600 lines per day. It will come if you work at it. When you first start, your head is in books most of the time too, so this is taking away from your typing. Just keep at it.
I do 1200 lines per day
as a FT IC. This takes me anywhere from 5-6 hours normally, on a bad day it can take me 12 hours when I get distracted. The point is that you will get faster with time. I don't use expansion programs or macros, for me it is just faster to type what they say rather than try to remember what my "codes" are. I have been doing transcription now for 15 years and it does take some time to get the hang of things, even when I started this job it was taking me my full 8 hours to do 1000 lines, then I was noticing I was getting it done in 4-5 hours so I upped my line committment.
I started out full time at home when I was pregnant with my first child, it is difficult to organize your time with kids at home but there are ways around it and still be very productive. Where is your computer? I used to keep mine downstairs so that I could still be with my kids and give them stuff to do and watch them but still work at the same time.
Good luck and hang in there, it will get quicker for you!
500 lines for a newbie
I have only been working for 8 weeks. It takes me 4-5 hours to do 500 lines. Somedays, it takes less. It depends on if I have to look up meds or procedures. I also do clinic work, not acute.
1000 lines
I do clinic notes and it still took me nearly 4 weeks to get to 1000 lines. I only hit 1000 lines once, maybe twice a week. Other than that I stay steady around 700. I would imagine ESL dictators in acute care would have taken me 6 to 8 weeks to hit 1000 and I probably would not hit 1000 very often either.
I work off hours and have no daycare
I start my shift at 8 p.m. after I tuck my kids into bed to avoid feeling guilty having to work and watch them. I have a job where I have to have a set schedule though, but I have found that this works well for my family. We don't have any daycare and I get all day with my kids. I work 38 hours a week with my working 9 hours on Sunday to make up for shorter shifts during the week and Saturdays off. I have a friend with 2 little ones at home as well and she does great and is a high performer! I hope everything works out for you, keep the positive attitude!
Shouldn't take more than 2 hours, depending on
such factors as sound quality, if ESL, or how many words you have to look up. If it is a new account starting with 30 minutes is good until you get a hang of the account, but you'll never make a living off of that and most companies require more than that.
did it in 9 months of about 35 or so hours a week
Worked HARD those hours too! :-)
Forgot to say I work about 5 hours a day.
I have many years of experience. If you are a newbie, and it sounds like you are, then you are going to turn out fewer reports and it will take you longer to proof than it will someone else with more experience. Most companies require you to be able to produce 150 lph, though often radiology is paid per report and I don't know what requirements are for that.
Night Hours for New Grads?
Hi,
Are new graduates from MT programs like M-Tec or CS offered night hours, any evening p/t or f/t jobs?
Thanks
You will get rusty on MT with those hours. No MT company will take you seriously sm
if you work those few hours a week and have that on a resume.
Plan on 4 hours - especially if you're
Hours of work went into compiling this
You'd be surprised how long this took me, actually, and I've already sold quite a few. For each company, I got all the information needed for you to see at a glance--company name, URL link direct to their employment pages, mailing address, phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses and names of CEOs and Presidents and HR departments, how long they've been in business, whether they hire part time or fulltime, if they're currently hiring or constantly recruiting, what the requirements are, any certifications needed, and each business has been searched through the BBB and it includes links to their BBB rating page. I also included any links to forum posts or ripoffreport.com posts to help you make a researched decision when applying for jobs. If you were to do this yourself, trust me--it would take weeks! LOL I figured I'd share the knowledge and information with others--why have all that time go to waste when others could use the product of my labors! :) From the people that have already purchased it, I have received feedback telling me how much information was in it and how easy it has been for them to find and apply for jobs. You can't get any better feedback than from those who have purchased it! :) Thanks guys, and good luck on your job searches!
keep in mind that lines w/o spaces
average of 30% - so if you are getting 150 lph w/o spaces, it is the equivalent to 180 lph with spaces.
Can you say where you work that you can get lines that easily? Thx. nm
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FT is usually 5000 lines a week and - sm
PT is usually 2500 lines a week. I have never heard 2500 for FT and 1500 for PT a week. I hear the hiring rate is 5-7 cpl. The most you will probably get is .08 after a few years, unless it keeps going down which I hope does not happen.
That is one of the reasons I refuse to work set hours and ...sm
a set number of lines. I dont have to add to my husbands paycheck, but I do like to help out if I can. I had an awsome, high paying job as an office manager at a physicians office. I quit to be home with my kids and working at home allows me to do that and still earn some money. There are enough companies out there that you do not need to feel pressure to put in a zillion lines everday or sit in front of your computer hours and hours one end. When my little one is in school full time I will put in more lines and time, but right now I work at home, on my terms, doing my number of lines. My boss is great about that. She knows I will be on for a few hours and will turn in about 800-1000 lines a day. I have never had my work suffer because I have to stop and spend time with my kids. That is the GREATEST thing about working at home. The flexibilty to spend time playing, reading, having lunch, and yes even laundry during my day while working is the ideal situation. I am sorry if you cannot do that and still find time for your children. My kids do not suffer and neither does my work.
I work 38 hours a week, here is my schedule
I did reply to your post below as well and hope I didn't not offend you. Here is my schedule, it works great for me and for my family. I get Friday nights, all day and night Saturday off, and am still able to attend church with my family on Sunday morning before having to work.
Sun. noon-9pm.
Mon. 8pm-1am
Tues. 8pm-1am
Wed. 6pm-1am
Thur. 8pm-midnight
Fri. 10am-6pm
I have to be up at 6:30 in the morning getting the older kids ready and off to school, but my little ones pretty much sleep through the night and I often catch a little nap with them during the day if I need one. I feel like I have the best of both worlds........stay home mom with my kids, and working and bringing in income. My DH only works a half day on Fridays so he is home before I start my shift at 10. Maybe you could ask for a trial period of a work schedule and make changes where you seem fit with your supervisor. I used to work a split shift, early a.m. and then again later at night, but found that to be quite draining and it made the days seem very long, but that is just me. Good luck, you will find what works best for you. :)
Lots of stress and long hours doing MT especially - sm
when you are first starting out. If you have to live on this, then in the beginning it is not a good choice. But if you are married and have a spouse income to live on and yours is just supplemental then that will work. When I first started 5 years ago I made $5K the first year, granted that was PT but I worked FT hours basically. I still work PT but practically FT, 30+ hours a week. I made about $16k this in 2006. Now I am not a fast typist (100-160 lph depending on dictator), and I find it hard to sit here and type for a solid 6 hours so I get easily distracted and goof off instead of working or else I am sure I could do $20K+ easy as I have more good than bad dictators. But some companies have mostly ESL and it is very hard to make money that way especially starting out. So many factors factor into to your income, your ability and typing speed, the ease of dictators, and if you can be dedicated and not get distracted. Obviously the more you can dedicate yourself and work consistently the more money you can make, just depends on your personal goals. Good Luck.
Or not so much stress or long hours, decent pay
I totally understand what you're saying, but being an MT varies so much based on what you bring to the job, where you work, and what kind of account you have that it's pretty tough to predict how any particular person will do. I'm very happy with my job. I find it to be the least stressful job I've ever had, love the predictable hours, and made 34K this last year working strictly a 40-hour week. This is after 1-1/2 years as an MT. I found the first 6 to 9 months terribly stressful because of the high learning curve, but once I settled into my account the stress level dropped considerably. I'm still working the same hospital account I started on, but also work other accounts as necessary. I work for a company that many people on this board say they can't make any money working for; it must have a lot to do with the stability I've had on my account that I am able to make reasonably decent money.
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