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Rate per audio hour - CO MT


Posted: Sep 01, 2011

I am applying for a position for a company, and in the application they ask what your "desired rate per audio hour" is. So far in my application process, I have only come across desired rate per line, so I did not know how to answer this question.

Just out of curiosity, what is the average rate per audio hour for MTs?

Rate per audio hour - CMT

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You can plan on it taking 3-4 minutes for you to type each minute of dictation, so you can plan on doing 15-20 minutes of dictation per hour. In other words it should take you 3-4 hours to type an audio hour of dictation. If you want to make $15 per hour, I would ask $60 per audio hour just to be on the safe side.

Which means that $21/audio hour is a RIPOFF - Maggie May

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whether you are a newbie or not. It will not end up being even minimum wage. And trying to transcribe group meetings (with everyone talking at once) can be VERY difficult, especially if they want each person speaking identified. They try to make it sound like it's an easy job, it isn't

Have done this for 11 years - Sue

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I have typed group meetings for 11 years and actually get paid by the word (0.02 cents/word), and it equals about $100 to $120 an audio hour. It takes me about 3-4 hours to do 1 hour of audio recording, that's typing 85-90 words per minute (that's if people are speaking one at a time too). I wouldn't take anything below $75. You will see that it's just not worth it. As Maggie May stated, it's not an easy job.


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