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question about calculating speech lines??? - sm


Posted: May 29, 2015

I'm sure this has been asked but can someone please tell me what happens with speech line requirements when they are calculating your CLPH. It has to be 100 or more. If I do speech lines today and I do 500 lines for example, do they calculate the 500 and divide by my hours to get my CLPH OR do they take the 500, divide in half and THEN use the 250 divided by my hours to get my CLPH???


Show me in this example-

500 lines speech, worked 5 hours. CLPH would be 100 LPH in that example OR do they half it first.... 500 lines speech, worked 5 hours, divide it so 250 lines divided by 5 hours would be 50 CLPH.  Thanks.

C-LPH in this case would be 50. - Transparent pay grid HA

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500 total divided by 5 hours = 100 lph, divided by 0.5 = C-LPH 50

are you serious?????? - sm

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how in the world can they do that for your CLPH?! I understand doing it for pay since the pay rate changed but the CLPH? That is not your true LPH though. If you can edit 400 an hour and they have it documented as 200 an hour then what happens when you look for another job? So in reality- they require 200 edited lines per hour truly. So then when it is converted it would be 100. Why dont they just say that.


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