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Lines based on characters with no spaces, throughts? - Montana

Posted: Jul 19, 2013

I just got a transcription job and am being paid with Word Count characters without spaces. I was told I would be making 9 cpl but when I figure out the spaces, it's around 7 cpl. Your thoughts on this please. Thanks.

characters - anon

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If you were told one thing and you are calculating it out to be a different amount, I would ask the person that told you the 9 cpl to explain their calculations and how they get the equivalent of 9 cpl. Since it sounds like the job is being calculated by the character, I'm not sure it really matters.

Is this a typing or VR job? How many lines or characters per hour or day are you required to do? Do they pay for the demographics and add that into the equation? I guess a little more info about the job would help.

Characters - Montana

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It is not VR. No requirements except quick turnaround. Yes, I believe they do pay for demos. I am concerned that I have other things to do and too and am not paid for these things. I am one who believes I should be paid for everything keystroke I do. Why not just say my rate is 7 and give me characters and spaces?

characters - anon

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Yes, agree about the straight typing, should be getting paid for spaces since they need to be typed. I have heard of some places that do not pay for spaces but consider 50 or 54 characters a line. Do you think this may be how the are coming up with 9 cpl? If your demos are larger, that can add up too.

How many other things are you required to do off production? I can see needing to check the demos, but if they pay for the lines, I wouldn't consider that to be not getting paid. Do you have a lot of copies to add? Do they make up for it in other ways? My company pays you for most everything, but I do have to search for doctor's names and local nursing home names, etc. Would've been nice if they had provided a list with a lot of this info, but I have spent my own time doing this. There are so many other benefits that they offer, though, that I don't mind. First and foremost, they just give me a minimum and let me work whenever I want, and that is a super benefit for my circumstances.

Guess you need to look at the picture as a whole and decide if you want to continue. Is it a good secure job and you are a sole bread winner? Is the work easier than some of the total ESL accounts you can end up with somewhere else.

I would ask, though, if you were told 9 cpl but you are calculating it out to 7.

"Why not just say my rate is 7" - anon2

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Because they'd have a hard time getting an experienced MT to work for 7 CPL for straight typing. That is low. I think it's very sneaky for them to hire an MT at 9 cpl but "forget" to tell you that it is without spaces (and, as you say, really equals out to 7 cpl with spaces). Makes me wonder what else they're shifty about.

Is it Allied? - mt3

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nm

No it's not Allied - Montana

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No it's not Allied.

cpl discrepancy - is this patient first

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Hi - just curious if this is PF. I noticed they had a job posting recently and was told their pay was "equivalent" to 9 cpl, but the actual pay was more like 7.6 or something. They said they paid on a 50 character line, so it "was like 9 cpl." It all sounded kind of fishy to me and the whole gig with the rest of the benefits, etc., seemed too good to be true, so I passed, but now wondering if this is the same company?

cpl discrepancy - Montana

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No it's not PF and I think it's done on a 65 character line. The files are very long and require a lot of proofreading. So I'm spending a lot of time not typing.:(

Characters and spaces - Montana

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Do you believe some of the companies are taking the pay you would get for the spaces and pocketing it and only paying you for the character lines? I mean they are billing the practice or clinic whatever the lines are with characters and spaces both and then only paying me for the character lines with no spaces.

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