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was just offered 5cpl @ Sten-Tel - laughable

Posted: Mar 20, 2013

Since I don't live in India, I told her that is not even a living wage for anyone in the USA and good luck finding anyone. Jeez...and when it got down to 6 and 7 I thought that was the all time low! Hope the rest of you will let them know that no one can live on that. You would think 20+ years should account for something!

For straight transcription??? - nm

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yes, and 2 cpl for VR - like I said, laughable!

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JUST SAY NO!

Been there. It's impossible IMO to make even min wage with that. - anna

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I worked for awhile at a job that paid 3 CPL for editing. Even with the speed at 140% (that was the max it would let me do), with the voice rattling at the speed of sound, I couldn't get more than about $9/hr at 3CPL editing. 2CPL sounds like, well, torture or slave labor, you choose. I'd rather be the guy out on the street corner with the Statue of Liberty costume on and the "Taxes done here" sign.

uh oh - good worker

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The scary thing about that is if they do find people that accept this lower pay the other MTSO's will jump on the bandwagon. I sense another decrease in pay coming soon.

That's their normal rate - Outofmymindyo

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Unfortunately, that's Sten-Tel's normal rates, no matter your experience. Even as a newbie I refused that rate 5 years ago and I find it hard to believe they can actually keep anyone working for them at those rates. Their VR is anywhere from 2-3 cpl as well.

They will find someone, but it will be a newbie - and they will not be very good

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They'll get what they pay for.

Sten-Tel - MT

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I think it depends what account, I talked to someone from Stentel and she said it was 6.5 - 7 cpl. Another account she told me about was 5 cpl. Not that 7 cpl is a lot, but it seems to be what everyone else is paying.

not if we refuse to work for less than - 8 cpl which is still bad!

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but at least you can still make a living. if at all possible, we ALL must band together and refuse to work for the low rate. I realize sometimes you have to do what you have to do, but if you can, politely refuse and tell them 8 cpl is your MINIMUM. If enough of us do that, the rates will go up...they'll have to!

If you refuse, they will ALWAYS find someone who will do it. - sm

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I found a job that only pays 7 cpl, but I LOVE the job! I make shortcuts for EVERYTHING and make my own templates and I usually can type at least 300 lines per hour by doing that. That makes me average around 21 bucks an hour and I don't think that is "slave wage" by any means. Even a person who only types 200 lines per hour, that is $14 bucks an hour. The MTSOs are NOT going to just jump the pay up, so it's time we find our own shortcuts or ways to make more, sad reality, but true.

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