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Pay scale for IC a bit confusing...... - Smeeps


Posted: Sep 26, 2013

Math was never my forte.  The pay is $1.15 per 1000 characters, 425,000 characters per pay period (part time) required.  I'll be working 20 hours per week.  

Here's how to figure it out - xx

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The "unit" is 1000 characters since that is the pay basis. So, divide 425,000 by the unit (1000) to get the number of required units, which will be 425, then multiply that by the pay per unit ($1.15). So, multiply 425 by $1.15.

pay scale - ????

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Well this is a different pay scale, but if I figured it out right, you would divide 425,000 by 10 days, which comes out to 42,500 characters per day. Of course since a space is not a character you will not be getting paid for spaces. Then take the 42,500 characters per day and divide by 65 (average characer line) and that equals 654 lines per day. If you divide 1,000 characters by 65, that comes out to 15.39 lines. I divided that and came out to 0.745 cents per line without spaces. That equals to 48.73 per day or 243.65 per week.

Not sure if this is right but this is nothing like i have ever seen before.

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. - smeeps

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Hopefully, any installs will take place in a day or so and I can get to work :)


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