Home     Contact Us    
Main Board Job Seeker's Board Job Wanted Board Resume Bank Company Board Word Help Medquist New MTs Classifieds Offshore Concerns VR/Speech Recognition Tech Help Coding/Medical Billing
Gab Board Politics Comedy Stop Health Issues
ADVERTISEMENT




Serving Over 20,000 US Medical Transcriptionists

not unless margins are 2.5+ inches

Posted By: Georgia MT on 2007-12-20
In Reply to: Question about pay rate... - NOLA

I have been paid by gross line at no less than 8 and still found that to be pretty low. I think on average you will find you make about 6-6.5 cents based on the 65-character count. Maybe a little more but I would say no more than 7.


Complete Discussion Below: marks the location of current message within thread

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu


Other related messages found in our database

It's all in the margins and format

when comparing a gross line count to a character count, but my goodness, .23 a line sounds like it cannot possibly be true.  My gross lines accounts don't convert that way at all.  One doc has a 1-inch margin and her gross line count is just slightly above the 65-character count because she doesn't do lists and keeps her PX in paragraph format.  If you are being told it converts to .23 a line, I would wonder if most of the whole report is indented half-way across the page.  Maybe you hit upon a gold mine!   Ask about the format...


Depends on the margins and fonts

When working in DOS and using macros and templates to the max, I was getting $2.60/page (1 inch margins and Times font).  This wasn't so many years ago.  At the same time I also worked for Signal (pre-MDI) at 11 cpl.  I had a better per hour average with ppp.  More recently with the same company when we moved to Windows and used Word, some of the clients began asking to get more on the page in order to keep down chart bulk.  It is amazing how much more can be placed on a page with these changes.  The MTSO had to renegotiate payment with the offices because it was effectively taking a pay cut, and the MT pay was changed to 65 per line.  It still worked out to a minimum of $2.60/page. 


I would say that $3.50 per page is going to be competitive with your MDI pay, but most likely not a better deal, especially if the platform is not as user friendly.


Messing with the margins is cheating. Use macros.

nm


There are a few posts below down a few inches. nm
m
Some posts about TTS down a few inches on this
s
Font size matters for gross line, so do margins
less lines because more fits on a line. First person asked how a gross line compares to 65 chars. If it's 12 font with 1 margins, it's about 1-1/2 to 2x 65 char line count, i.e., 7 cents per gross line would be around 8.5 to 9 cents per 65 char.
Go down this page about 15 inches or so and see the Warning about
s
There are responses to this down this page a few inches. nm
s
Look down the board a few inches, low pay offered. This
s
On page 2 here, down about 15 inches or so, lots of the
s
don't know about OSI but I have lost 20 pounds and 25 inches. I am sm
getting ready to quit smoking on 2/14/2008.
If you are paid cpl based on 65 char.line, margins dont matter.
s
On Jobs board, few inches down, AIDS/psych work, then
s