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ANYONE EVER GET PAID PER TYPED PAGE?? - NEED ADVICE

Posted: May 07, 2013

I am working for a new company and they have different pay rates for different accounts. They are offering for a new account to pay $1.00 per typed (double-spaced)page. I've never been paid per page before, always per line. Is this a good rate? It honestly seems kind of low to me.

I did, way back in the day! - Trampled underfoot

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Back in 1980, I think I started at 50 cents a page, then 75 and finally I think I was at a dollar, but that was probably in the late 1980s. They weren't double spaced, though. It was always a great joy when you managed to get just a few lines onto an additional page.

Nowadays, it doesn't sound like much, but it depends on the reports, too. If there are a lot of short reports, it's great, or if there are a lot of reports that just go a line or two onto a second page, it's not bad. You'd have to see how much you could do in an hour.

Pay per typed page - greyhoundmom

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About 3 years ago, I did sleep study reports and was paid per page. It was $3.75 which was okay. The only thing I did not like about it was that we had to edit some reports (sentence structure, etc). A couple of the docs were really bad with grammar and punctuation so that had to be corrected.

Pay per page - anon

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I did but at $4 per page and lots of templates. I made a lot of money; however, I worked unbelievable hours with lots of macros and templates.

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