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0.16 per audio minute? - snl

Posted: Feb 05, 2010

Has anyone heard of pay at 0.16 per audio minute for medical transcription? They told me I could make at least $10 an hour or more at this rate. This seems impossible to me... What do you think?

Pull the other leg & it plays Jingle Bells - deenibeeni

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An audio minute is about 12 lines. So 16 cents per audio minute equals about 1-1/3 cents per line. In order to make $10.00 at that rate you would have to type 750 lines, so in order to make $10 an hour you would have to do 750 lines an hour. Someone is pulling your leg.

Or another way to look at it (sm) - Long time MT

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It takes approximately 1 hour to transcribe 20 dictated minutes, give or take a number of variables, but that's a decent average. So 20 minutes at 16 cents a minute is $3.20. Somebody is feeding you a line!

To further elaborate...sm - n

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EVEN if you could type all 60 minutes of audio in that hour, you would only make $9.60 at 0.16 cents per audio minute.

And that is just for the audio minutes, not your time. Which would be as the other poster put it.

somebody - just

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took $10/hour and divided it by 60 minutes and came up with $0.16 per dictated minute. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. It takes 2-3 times longer to TRANSCRIBE those dictated minutes. I would ask for $0.48 per dictated minute at the very least, preferably MORE!

Your reply made my day - and almost made me - spit out my coffee, as I was LOL!

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nm

You can make more than $10 an hour... - sm

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...if you can type faster than he's dictating it!

To give an idea, 1.00/dictated minute used to be norm. - wise1

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So, I dobt that you could make even 5.00 at that. :(

Ummm, no - mter

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The general rule is a 3:1 ratio. It takes you 3 minutes to transcribe 1 minute of dictation. You'd be paid 0.16 for for 20 minutes, meaning you'd make $3.20.

I used to pay by the minute and it was 1.00 - 1.20.

Now, if you live in India, perhaps $3.20 is an acceptable wage.

RUN!!! DON'T DO IT. - old mt

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If the dictators are horrible and you get behind you wouldn't make anything. The mean hourly income for us is supposed to be around $14.00 (I think I read that some place could be mistaken but even 10 is low).

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