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Paid by audio minute - JW

Posted: Apr 26, 2012

Anyone have any experience being paid by audio minute? I have an offer and want to know the pros and cons if any. Thanks.

I'd want to hear a sample first - LindaOz

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This could be a nightmare. If this is to transcribe a meeting with several, terrible sound quality, where you can't identify who is speaking or understand what they are saying without playing it over and over, you won't make anything. If this is a doctor, what you make depends on his or her dictation skills, sound quality and rate they pay. I would definitely ask for a sample of what you will be transcribing before accepting it, or just do one tape on a trial basis.

Audio minute - JW

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All makes sense to me. thanks for the advice, it's well taken.

PBM - Anonymous

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I worked on a pay by minute system for a number of years. We got a base rate plus more depending on the level of difficulty of the work you transcribed (3 tiers) and there were production requirements in order to remain at that level. It was great when you had long reports and providers who paused a lot, the short reports didn't add up very fast. For me, it balanced out and I did pretty well. As the other person stated, find out what kind of accounts you will have before you commit.

I do p.r.n. general transcription where I am paid by the audio - PJ

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minute. I am relatively new to general transcription, so I am about breaking even at what I would be paid by line. I really like the general transcription, though, much better than the medical transcription I did for 7 years, and I have no doubt that I will eventually be making more with this method of payment than I ever did in the MT field.

In my case, you get to listen to as much of the job as you want before you claim it, so you can hear if there are going to be multiple speakers, if there's a lot of background noise, etc., before you decide to take the job.

As in the other two posters' notes, you really need to ask a lot of questions and find out what you are getting into before you take a job that pays by the audio minute.

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