Line Count, Spaces, and Your Pay
This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Pay for medical transcriptionists is the most complicated set-up I have ever seen. With general transcriptionists, they are paid per recorded minute (meaning that if the dictation is 10 minutes long, they get paid the going rate for 10 minutes, not however long the work actually took them to do.) With legal transcriptionists, they are paid per typed page, and there is an accepted format that … Continue reading