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Focus group transcription pay rates? - Samir


Posted: May 03, 2011

Hey, does anyone have any experience transcribing focus groups/conferences? Anything where there are more than one speaker. Do companies pay differently for this, or is it the standard cpl as regular work?

Focus Groups - LinK

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I have done focus groups in the past, but it is very difficult especially if it's with multiple speakers. It's usually very noisy with everyone talking over each other and the microphones are usually not right in front of the person to it's very hard to hear. But to answer your questions, you're usually paid by the audio hour. I wouldn't take anything less than $80 or more. Good luck.

I've done conferences and interviews - mthead

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for pharmaceutical market research. I charge $1.50 per dictated minute; sometimes I make out okay, and other times I think I should have charged $5/dictated minute!

What part of the USA are you from, Samir? - me

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Just askin'

Re: what part of the US - Samir

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South Carolina, outside of Columbia.


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