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I need some help figuring this out...sm - Wondering


Posted: Nov 28, 2012

I posted a week or so ago about a job offer working for a court reporting agency.  It is transcription that pays 5 cpl on a gross line.  The work is actually doing claims for insurance companies.   She wanted me to come a week ago before I started just to see how fast and well I could transcribe. I typed 7 pages in 20 minutes, which equaled about 127 lines.  So I figured, wow 127 lines in 20 minutes, that's great.  I'll do just fine at this job.  Well, fast forward to this past Monday when I started my first day.  I consider myself to be a very fast transcriptionist.  I work at a local hospital doing radiology at night.  I can transcribe anywhere from 250-300 lines an hour and just the other day I transcribed 350 lines an hour at .15 cpl.  This is on a 65-character line too.  At this job at the court reporting agency, it's all I can do to get to 250 lines an hour.  I am struggling to get even that.  Today I worked for 7 hours, took 1/2 for lunch, and typed a total of 1,361 or somewhere around that.  When you do the math, it sure isn't a whole lot of money, somewhere around $68 for 7 hours.  This job pays on a gross line.  Can someone tell me why the heck my line count would be so low even being paid on a gross line?  I was under the impression that being paid gross line versus 65-character is so much better.  You get paid for even one word on a line so wouldn't the lines rack up fast?  If I can do 250-300 hour on a 65-character line then why wouldn't it jump to 400-500 lines an hour on a gross line?  I haven't made under $15 an hour in almost 20 years.  At 47 years old, I can't see myself transcribing to the point that my wrists are cramping and aching (which they never, ever do at my other job) for$12 or $13 an hour.  That is just crazy.  I made that almost 18 years ago.  Does anyone know how to figure this out.  I am racking my brain as to why I can't get the line count that I think I should be getting. 

Oh, the font is Arial 11and I don't know what the margins are... - Wondering

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65 character versus gross line - sibcat

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the font and margins would definitely make a difference. if you count the keystrokes on Arial 12 with half-inch margins in Word, they total about 105, with Arial 11 about 110, so it seems gross line counting can amount to less lines.

some questions - sm

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are you printing out these reports? Are there time-consuming steps between the ending of one report and the beginning of the next? How were the reports different on the day you typed 127 lines in 20 minutes?

...or maybe you don't want help figuring this out? - nm

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