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$1 per 3-minute audio ratio - wth?! - uvgottabekiddingme

Posted: Dec 16, 2011

No one 'spoke to' my previous post. Someone answered with an irrelevant thread and thus began another topic; please see my previous post from an hour ago...would like your input if anyone is earning or has been proposed this dreadful rate! As mentioned previously, I was quoted this rate by 2 different companies, as if this is a 'normal' thing...! What say you guys?!

$1 per 3 minute - wimt

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I have never been paid this way, but that would fall in line with the job posted on Job Seekers Board for a non-medical IC for $21 per 60-minute audio. Doesn't sound right to me either if you go by the standard that 1 minute of audio takes about 3 minutes to transcribe. That would mean a 60-minute audio would take about 180 minutes (3 hours) to transcribe and you would earn $21... looks like $7/hour to me. No thanks.

My posting about the $1 per 3-minute was totally coincidental to the ad placed by another company to - uvgottabekiddingme

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Yes! I saw that ad for the $21 per hour audio only after I posted...and yes, that sounds like it's along those lines, paywise. Terrible, terrible. But again, a coincidence. I did not post because of that company, but 2 others who offered the same BS.

when I used to pick up tapes and have to take minutes, it would take me - about an hour to do 25-30, sm

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minutes, depending on the dictator (you known harder, more normals, etc.) Where I am at now, I am pretty sure I don't even come close to transcribing 25-30 minutes in an hour as there is too much garbage to go through before I am even able to type the report (checking on patient information, setting up faxes, make sure of this and that). Many, many years ago, we typed in word and had 1 document that was separated by a special header for each patient and then you counted your characters for the entire document, which of course made if very easy to make some lines and do a lot of minutes. The way these companies are set up now, I think I might do 15-20 minutes in an hour. If that is the case, that would be less than $7 an hour.

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