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Professional Transcrptions of NW FL - RLee

Posted: Mar 29, 2010

Compensation is .05 cents for every 43 black characters. Who would want this job? Maybe they will get a lot of applicants from India. Saw this advertised on an MT related job board.

I saw that too ...sm - sosmt

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doesn't sound like you get paid for spaces either... I'm gonna jump on this on! NOT!! >:(

So that would be 10 cents per 86 characters. - sm

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So that equates to about 8 cpl if it were 65 characters with spaces. Not really off by much offered these days.

Do the math!

Oh no it is not. Did the math. - MTangel

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No, that would not be. It would be about 23% less. I did the math. I took a document and counted it without the spaces and then with using 43 cpl w/o and 65 with and for the same document I would make $5.91 with the 0.05 per line/43 cpl, and $7.52 at the 0.08/65 cpl. That is significant! I think they do this to trick us.

Dont forget, theyre not paying for spaces. - .05 = 5 cpl x 43 = $5.21.

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nm

That is exactly what I said. Look again - MTangel

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When you compare a document at the 0.05/43 cpl without spaces it comes to $5.91.

When you do the same document counting 0.08 cpl/65 cpl with spaces you get $7.91.

So, same document:

0.05 cpl/43 cpl (no spaces) you get $5.91

0.08 cpl/65 cpl (WITH) spaces you get
$7.52.

See what I mean? This is a major difference! Think about how much you will get ripped off at the end of a workday! That is about 23 percent less.

I just did it. - sm

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This is a one page document.

1832 w/o spaces divided by 43 x 0.05 = $2.15

2195 w spaces divided by 65 x 0.08 = 2.72

So, a difference of 50 cents.

significant isn't it? - MTangel

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See, this is what I mean. You will get paid about 23% less with the 0.05/43 cpl (without) spaces then you would if you were getting 0.08 cpl/65 cpl with spaces. This to me is just too much of a difference.

Sciance does this as well!! Run!! - jm0405

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The problem with Sciance and these companies not paying for spaces, they won't tell you if the line count you see is accurate or are they still going to deduct #'s from it because most MT platforms cannot ignore spaces when they calculate line counts.

At Sciance, I typed 12 or 13 reports..one of them was 18 min long, 3 pages. I thought my line count would be up there, considering most of the others were at least a full page, some 2 pages...lot of typing. For kicks and grins, how many lines?? A little over 400. I asked the supervisor at Sciance at that point, "Is this 400 line thing what I am getting paid 0.095 for or are you going to subtract more from that number due to this "pay black characters only." HE NEVER ANSWERED ME! I then asked about my paycheck, he said they might send me one in the mail if they feel like it, etc...I quit immediately!!

This "no-spaces" deal is a rip off.

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