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Legal Transcription Jobk posting - Laura


Posted: Apr 07, 2015

They pay $1.10 per page. There are 46 lines to a page. Even if this was paying for gross lines, it would only be .02 cents per line!  If they counted per 65 character line it would be even less!

legal lines - anon

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I thought they said something about 25 lines per page in an expanded font? Still, I guess it would depend on how many pages you could crank out per hour. But they only pay once a month... :-(

That's right, the large indent on left. Thx. - Laura

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How often they pay should not matter - ???

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It should not matter whether they pay monthly, every two weeks, or daily. You get paid the same amount.

Put your pay in a checking account and draw from it incrementally over the month. Budget, in other words.

Legal Lines - lrlady

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Actually that is a decent line rate. A little low but it can come out to the equivalent of a decent pay per hour when compared to the crap we put up with in transcription now. I do scoping in addition to transcription and it is way better pay than MT work and far more interesting.


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