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General transcription vs Medical - MT?


Posted: Sep 13, 2010

I am curious of the views of those of you who do or have done general transcription and medical transcription.  How do they compare?  Can you make more money with one or the other?  Where do you search for general transcription jobs online?  Thanks in advance

looks interesting, but - deenibeeni

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most of the time the ads I've seen for transcription of things like panel discussions, etc., pay absurdly low wages. Like $10 per hour of audio. They must think this translates to $10 an hour, which is already ridiculous, but in fact it translates to a third of that or less, especially if you don't have a lot of subject-specific expanders set up. I tried to gently explain this to an ad poster once & got a fairly snotty reply. Depending on the audio, number of speakers, subject, etc., I would imagine $60 per audio hour would be the bare minimum. If you figure 12 lines per audio minute, that's around 8 cpl. Going with the $10 per audio hour scenario at 12 lines per minute would be about 17 cents per 12 lines or around 1.4 cpl; less if they are talking faster than this. Uh, no thanks.


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