How much lines per hour?
Posted By: Paul Anthony on 2006-03-22
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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.
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How *many* lines per hour...do you have a
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200 lines an hour is way beyond minimum expected
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Used to do QA for $20 an hour -
Would not even consider less than that because I can make that much doing straight transribing and have a lot few headaches.
you can make up to $40 per hour.....
if your speed is good and you have a good expander. anyone who types less than 70 words per minute, will probably have a hard time earning over $20 per hour. Those who are making $5 to $9, well that's just crazy. Terrible account, terrible dictators, terrible expanders...something is definitely wrong.
$12 to $13 an hour are poverty wages
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For a newbie $10 an hour is good I would say - sm
granted if you have always typed 175+ cpl then it is not good of course. But say you get .07 line-65 cpl then 175cpl would come out to be $12.25 an hour. Starting out I made about $7/hour at .07/line, now I make average about $12/hour, but do about $9-16/hour depending on the dictator. I do not get paid for spaces as well so that cuts into the bottom line as well. I would think after a year they should bump you up to at least $12. Where I work the higher the line rate you make means you get the harder dictators, so that hurts too when you are on payment by the line, but where hourly pay would "pay" off.
$9 an hour starting is really good for a new MT.
As the poster said below, most new MTs do not start that high. It took me months to get to $9 an hour.
I guess you don't mind working for $5-10 an hour.
I don't feel 5 cpl is worth my time. Even doing 200 lph (it took me 7 months to get to that point), I would only be making $10 an hour. Why would anyone waste their time? Their are companies out there that offer new MTs much better rates. But if you don't feel you are worth more than that, by all means, go ahead and accept minumum wage.
I was lucky if I made $1 an hour my first week! sm
It was horrible! After a month, I am now up to $8 an hour.(I know that is still not much!) I would look up every single drug and doublecheck the dosages. Now, I am familar with many of them and it feels good not to have to look them all up. It is great that your company thinks you are doing good work!
But that 1 hour of dictation could take you 3-8 hrs to do depending on clarity, the setup, etc. nm
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I remember my first job quite a few years ago and making about $2 an hour until I learned...sm
the account, got used to the doctors, learned how to efficiently research etc. I also needed to create my own expansion program as the system I worked in back then would not allow an outside expander. Keep at it and good luck, it will get better.
That wage per hour is a crock, no matter what! Look at the 3 recommended
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20$ an hour?!!! I couldn't make this as a nurse where I live! You are VERY blessed! nm
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Wow..how does that work. Your making $5 an hour. Didn't minimum wage go up? If you pay or line co
does not go up, I'd probably move on. I understand right now your probably just getting the experience but you work a whole day and make $40??? I'd be tempted to change jobs soon. I know personally I could not survive on $5 an hour.
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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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.
350 lines in 8 hours?
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.
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.
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.
How do you make lines and maintain quality?
I'm trying to get up to company's line requirements but do not seem to be catching all my errors. Any suggestions?
I've always lost the first lines that were typed when
they come back on and change what they had said. The report needs to make sense and if he is obviously going in another direction, it's just easier to start over. It doesn't seem fair, but that is they way I have always done it. Now, if you had typed a paragraph or so and he just hung up or got cut off, I would leave a QA marker and send it in and get the lines.
Gross lines are great! Take it if it's 6-7cpl. nm
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Reading between the lines, the work is coming
from India and no experienced MT would be willing to work for peanuts to basically have to redo the report.
I wasn't being nasty - quit reading between the lines
x - but do not think that you are just going to walk back into this like it's a walk in the park. It's not. Things have changed and it's not what it used to be and it is not where the money used to be.
Orion Transcription/Vital Lines/Speech 4 Me
I am a newbie and have been dealing with these three companies about the possibility of working with them. Does anyone have any information on any of the three companies? Good or bad.
what company can I do about 1000 lines/week from home?
Hi, I just got an offer for a day job with benefits but I want to do about 1000 lines of MT a week from home.
Anyone have any recommendations about a company I can do that with?
I just graduated Everett Community College's program.
A lot of companies required 1000 to 1200 lines a day. If you are just
starting out you can expect to do about half that unless you have an easy account.
check out Hattie Helper's post a few lines down regarding schools--nm
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