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$50.00 per audio hour - general transcription

Posted: Jul 30, 2014

I am used to getting paid by the hour doing medical transcription. Is $50.00 per audio hour for general transcription good or bad? I really don't know.

I have been paid $1.20 per audio minute - smg

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and we used to say either 10 to 12 lines per minute.

so an audio hour could have 600 to 720 lines- so that's maybe 7 to 8 cents a line. I would say that might be the going rate.

Is "general" transcription medical or something else, like insurance transcripts or something?

No, I wouldn't work for that - Ex GenMT

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I worked general transcription for a while after I left Nuance, just for something different. It made me want to go back to Nuance. haha.

Anyway, I wouldn't work for less than $1 per audio minute ($60 per hour), and I don't think even that is really enough. Many of the general transcription files are of people talking very, very fast, which is where getting paid by the line pays well and getting paid per audio minute doesn't. I had many reports where I was paid around $60-70 for the transcription, but the speaker talked so fast, I would've made $100 - 130 at my old Nuance rate. I totally didn't think it was worth it and ended up finding a job with another MT company.

Yes, and frequently there are group discussions ... - me

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...and you're required to track each speaker. It really slows you down.

Yeah, unfortunately general transcription isn't necessarily "better" or easier than MT.

takes average transcriptionist 3 to 4+ hours to transcribe - 1 audio hour of clean clear dictation.

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You are not being paid 50.00 an hour.

Depends on the work type. - sm

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Generally, $1 per audio minute or $60 per audio hour is my bottom rate. However, I had one client that had clear one-speaker audio for $45. I consistently made $15/hour with that work and it was relatively easy. However, I have had files that paid much more, but because of speakers speaking over each other and having to type strict verbatim, never made more than $10/hour. As with MT, it is going to vary. I used to have 2 MT companies I transcribed for, one of which paid 9 cpl and one that paid 7 cpl. I eventually quit the 9 cpl account because I made nearly $5/hour more on the 7 cpl account just because of the repetitiveness of the account and being able to use templates and macros.

Thanks for all the input - OP

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Thank you all for your input. I was having trouble accessing the test, so I decided to forgot it since it might not be worth it anyways.

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