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What to charge for general transcription? - CTMT

Posted: Jul 16, 2012

Hi all, I have been offered a general transcription job today and they will be calling me with a pay rate. I have no idea what is fair pay for this kind of work, as I have always worked in medical transcription. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Is it just a temporary position? - just a project for them?

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I have done that before, and I charged 0.15 per line. Look up on the internet what secretarial-type companies in your area charge, and you will see. They usually charge by the minute of transcription. I looked at what they were charging, and I thought 0.15 was a fair rate, which was approximately $4.00 a page, and they were thrilled with it.

Not sure if temporary, but will take whatever I can get, I am a former DMTer out of work - CTMT

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thanks for some direction, so when they tell me what they are paying or ask me what I charge, i can have something. I will look up locally as well. Thanks

What do you think? I am so clueless. - CTMT

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.75/min of run time. So for example if you type up a 30 minute interview you would get paid $22.50.

Depends on what type of general transcription - - sm

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Is it meetings? One-on-one interviews? Multispeaker focus groups? Municipality hearings? Product surveys? Post-media? Entertainment? Audio quality? Amount of speakers? Time stamp vs. not? If so, how often in the transcript? Tagging of the speakers? The pay varies A LOT with each of these...

Wow! - CTMT

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I never realized all those made a difference. It is interviews, sometimes multispeakers, and time stamp throughout the transcripts(which is a pain).

Good point. - -other poster

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The work I did was focus groups. I did not have to identify the speakers. It was pretty easy to hear. I told them it takes about 3x as long as the recording is to finish it, and I worked on it when I finished with my other job. I used my own computer of course. Let me know if you need any more help.

I will, thank you - CTMT

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I plan on still getting a medical transcription/editor job. Never want to have just one job again and be let go with no notice like at ScribeRight recently. I am also going back to school for medical coding, gradually working on getting out of MT'ing.

When you think about it, medical should be more than general - just me

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It takes more knowledge and training to transcribe medical transcription, so why do we transcribe this at a cheaper rate than general transcription (other than it is more straight typing and not able to use text expanders as much)? Strange....

Medical is mainly ... medical. General can be anything. - Maggie May

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You can study up and learn a lot about medicine, until you're prepared for just about anything. But with general, you never know what you're going to get, and it might be a topic you know absolutely nothing about, which could require a lot more research than what you would normally do with MT (if you know your stuff, anyway). But MTs are definitely underpaid!

charge for general transcription - ej

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I have done several different types of general transcription. I always charged the same, but maybe should have charged more. I have done military, business minutes, medical county minutes, etc. Good luck with your endeavors. If you can do the same kind all of the time it would be easier.
The worst thing about doing minutes was knowing who made the motions - ha!

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