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You want to know what people with 20 years experience as a Transcriptionist are getting when they start with a new company? or when they run their own at home transcription business? or the pay for a transcriptionist who works at, for instance, a hospital? At a hospital, normally you are paid a salary and required to type a certain amount of minutes of dictation in the time you are on the clock, depends on the facility how much you are paid yearly. Your own company, you set the rate, by page.. by lines .. or by characters. For the outsourcing companies, it depends on whether or not they supply your equipment and things like that. Usually, you are expected to type 60,000-70,000 characters or 1000-1200 lines per day..... approximately 6000 lines in a 5 day period. There are incentives to get you to type more, usually they start at 4000-5000 lines. Then when you get to that target, 5000 or 6000, for the next 1000 lines typed, you get an additional amount per line up to the next figure, then the incentive gets higher.........example...... say you are making 8 cents base per line up to 5000. Then when you get to 5001 up to 6000, you will be making for instance, 2 cents more a line, so that would be 10 cents per line, then at 6001-7000, an additional 4 cents a line, making those lines pay you 14 cents per line............ comes to a pretty good chunk. If you type 7000 lines a week, for example, youd make about 640 a week.
5000 @ 8 cents, next 1000 @ 10 cents, next 1000 @ 14 cents........
Hope I added all that correctly. Just got through with 12 hour shift.  The long and short of it is this........ it really doesnt make any difference what experience you have over 10 years because they dont even look at anything back further than 10 years usually. You usually get a lil more for the first 5000 lines because you are experienced, but not much. We usually end up making the same amount of money per line as the new grads. |
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