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Posted: Mar 10, 2012

Not talking straight typing but VR line average per week or per pay-period. I know its a personal question but we are all anonymous here. So for example do you average: 7000 a wk 9000 a wk 15,000 a pay-period. 18,000 a pay-period. Me personally, I have been only averaging 14 to 15,000 a pay-period. Trying to work on improving and I work 40hrs per week, so basically only doing anywhere from 7000 to 8000 per week. Just curious if I am average, below average...I am assuming below average for a 40hr work week, but have not been here very long so working on getting faster.

If we had a database of all these stats.. - wheres_my_job

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..it would help us on the wage front.

I aim for the 12,000 required of me. Sometimes - I have a few good days

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but not a lot. I used to aim for 16-20,000 when I was straight typing. Just can't do it on the VR (at least not on my VR --- some people's seems to be smarter; mine has to have every other word corrected which is so much slower than typing).

if I dont include straight typing, - sm

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I average about 7,000 to 10,000 per pay period (2 weeks) and I am part time 24 hours.

9000 a week - mom2huskies

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Give or take a few hundred lines.

so it seems that it varies with everyone so far. - I would like to see 9000 a wk.

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still can't tell what the average is, maybe some others will come along and reply. Thanks everyone.

It depends. sm - mtlt

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Depending upon which doctors/NPs are dictating in a particular week, I am doing between 8,000 and 11,000 lines per week on average weeks. I don't do a regular hourly schedule and some weeks get closer to 13,000 when I have issues with insomnia and end up staying up all night anyway. We also have one doctor that is really far behind and I can pick up some of those as needed to fill in when I don't have reports from my regular doctors/NPs.

I have found when you work shorter schedules - your average is higer because

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When I volunteer on my days off I may work 2-3 hours and I fly and can average 300 lph without a problem.

But when doing my regular 8hr shifts, I may start out fast, but at some point lose the rhythm or hit a few bumps.

If you are not working regular 8hr shifts then I can see your average being higher.

I have also found that when I have a bad day and I punch out at the end of my eight hour shift, if I go back and punch back on later that evening for 2hrs, I am able to make up the difference because again, in those 2hrs I produce 600 lines without a problem, hence bringing up my pay for the day and my average.

But I am only able to do this because we have so much OT right now.

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