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Average lines - hazeleyes8204

Posted: Apr 29, 2014

I currently work for a clinic system who, it seems, is trying to usher us out the door so I've been looking at online companies. It seems plenty pay by the line but I have NO clue how many lines per hour I can even do because the only number my place of employment gives us is average minutes per hour for an entire month (our bare minimum is 12 min/hr). So I am curious to know what sort of average lines per hour you ladies can do? We really cannot afford for me to take a huge pay cut so I just want to make sure it would be worth it for me to potentially change jobs. Thanks for any help and input you can give :)

better resign yourself - to a pay cut

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if/when you work for online companies. Average lines per hour depends on many factors, so hard to quantify. Work type, dictators, method of counting lines, platform working on, etc. Not much straight typing out there anymore anyhow. On an easy account using many normals, I used to do 180 - 200 lph but that is neither here nor there in today's situation of VR, payment for characters only, etc. Good luck to you.

look for your specialty - oncMT

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If you are working in any sort of specialty, try looking for jobs in that specialty. The problem with clinic notes is that since the doctors tend to say the same thing all the time, a lot of them have gone to VR. But if you are lucky enough to find one that hasn't yet, you could make decent money by putting together templates of what the doctors say. The good thing for you is that, for the moment anyway, you seem to have time on your side. You can look at what's out there and pick and choose, rather than taking the first thing that comes along.

When applying for jobs that pay by the line, you could ask them what the average lines per hour other MTs in the company are producing. Then multiply that by what they are paying per line to get an idea of what your pay might be. For example, 200 lines per hour x 8 cents per line = $16.00. But of course, there can be many variables, whether it is VR or straight typing, if there are templates that you get paid for, if you can build your own templates, etc.

I type specialty clinic notes that have a very low per-line rate, but because of all the templates, I'm making pretty good money. So, lots of factors to take into consideration when trying to figure out what your pay will be.

I wish you luck in your job search!

Thanks - hazeleyes8204

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Thanks for your response. I have been mostly typing Urology for the past 3 years (the previous 8 years we pretty much typed everything except psych and radiology). Perhaps I will see if I can find a company that is looking for someone for that.

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