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Please clarify... - onemore

Posted: Nov 30, 2009

I am in the process of testing for a company that is not medical transcription. The work is transcribing verbatim news reports. I have only done medical transcription and legal and both of those are based on either lines or page. Can someone tell me if this pay is good or not?

"We pay based on bytes typed (a byte being equal to a keystroke) at a rate of US$0.83/1,000 bytes."

Scratching my head here - Tired&CrankyMT

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"We pay based on bytes typed (a byte being equal to a keystroke) at a rate of US $0.83/1000 bytes."

Okay, bear with me here as I try to convert this into a payment method an MT can relate to.

Most places pay per 65-char line with spaces and 1000 bytes supposedly equals 1000 keystrokes according to the quote, so I've taken 1000 bytes/keystrokes and divided by 65-char line and come up with 15.384 representing ?? - I'm guessing this is how many lines you have to type to earn 0.83 cents?

Which further works out to 0.053 cents per line if you divide 0.83 cents by 15.384 lines, but I will admit I am confused by this method of payment.

Perhaps someone else can help convert this into an understandable rate if I've failed to do so or have gotten mixed up in calculations.

That is what I was thinking - onemore

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I figured it out the same way you did but wanted to get more input. Thanks a bunch. Now I realize that $0.053 is awful for medical transcription, but if you were to type teleconferences (or interviews), how do you think this pay would be?

Reply - daphne

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It sucks no matter how you figure it!!!!!

Yes, it sucks!....nm - nobody

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nm

wonder how bytes counts the expanded phrase. NM - anon

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If I figured this out right, it is about 0.055 a line - sm - XXX

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I took the 1000 bytes and divided by 65 to get 15 lines, so you get .83 per 15 lines which breaks down to 0.055 a line in the end. It would count the expansions and shortcuts as it goes by memory, not the actual keystrokes. Obviously if this is quick easy work and you can crank out 300 or 400 lines an hour (unlikely) then you may make $20 or so an hour, but as that is probably not the case...be lucky to break $10 an hour then.

Yes, it's bad pay. I did GT years ago and got $1.00/minute nm - Kay

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