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Gross line versus 65 character line - SKR

Posted: Aug 19, 2010

Anyone know if 5 cents per gross line is good or not? Better than 10 cents a 65 character line?? A company is offering this to me & says that at least 1/2 of every report is templated but you still get paid for it. I make 10 cents a 65 character line with the company I work for at this time. Please advise so I can make a decision to test or not with them.

I would say it is not great - my guess

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I am not real familiar with gross line, but from what I can gather it is where you are paid per actual line whether there is 1 character on that line or 90 characters on that line. The problem I see and knowing how companies like to manipulate this kind of thing is that they probably have you type in a smaller font so that more words will fit into the actual line and lessen your pay. Good luck and I hope someone responds who may know more about it, but that is what I have gathered.

Gross line - SKR

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You are correct with what a gross line is. The margins are 1" and the font is 12.

the font is not too bad at 12 - my guess

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This would be a hard decision to make. I don't know if .05 would be worth it at all. Yes you come out ahead when there is only a couple of words on a line and you get paid for a full line. But for a full line sure doesn't sound like a lot to me. One thing I would do is go into Word and type 1 full sentence, go into to Tools and select word count. See how many lines you would have gotten out of that sentence if you were paid by a 65-character line with spaces.

gross line - Tara

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Based on a report that I just typed, I did both scenarios and the 65 characters for 0.10 per line is better than 0.05 per gross line.

here's some info - Snow Bunny

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Getting 5 cpl for gross lines is equivalent to 6.3 cents for a 65-char line with formatting and 7 cpl for a 65-char line which includes spaces, tabs, and returns.

If you're currently getting 10 cpl for a 65-char line then you would need to get paid 7.16 cpl for gross lines. However, if at least half of every report is templated and you're paid for that, then you need to add that to the equation.

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