Re: Update - took on new account

From: Mariette (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:56:38 -0700

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:05:04 GMT, "Donna in Texas"
<miladybug1@yahoo.com.com> wrote:

>Hello, its me (again). Last time I posted about this, it turned out to be a
>controversy. Don't know if you remember or not, but I got an account in
>addition to my full time job at the hospital. $30 a tape. Well, after a
>month, I have figured I'm only making about $7/hr. That's less than half of
>what I make at my full time job. I am going to ask for a raise. I took the
>job with the agreement that we could negotiate the rate later if need be.
>Well, it's not worth it to me to do it for $7/hr. My question, should I ask
>for an equivalent of what I am making at my full-time job (which includes
>very challenging and difficult dictation), or a little less, say $40 per
>tape (which would be $10/hr, about $4 less than I make). He's a real easy
>dictator, but this is a side job...
>
>I'll probably get flamed for this deluxe, but if there are any kind souls
>out there with advice, would appreciate.
>
>Thanks..
>
>Donna in Texas.

How funny, I was just thinking about you and wondered what happened
with that. I remember all the widely varying estimates you got here
of what you might make per hour too, if at an average 1:3 or 1:4 ratio
or other, but it seemed that you figured you would make out quite a
bit better than that because of how fast you could do him before, at
about 1:2. What do you think happened to your production rate with
him? Is he recording at the wrong speed or something? What other
factor/s could account for such a big difference from your original
estimate?

Anyway, I would think you would want to ask for enough of an increase
to not only make what you're being paid at your full-time job, but
also enough extra to compensate for your pick-up and delivery too?
Expecting to make at least $14/hr at even just "a side job" isn't at
all unreasonable, IMO. I can't imagine doing something like that for
any less, myself (I recently quoted $15/hr for a non-MT side job of
transcription to someone, but even then I was giving them a big break
because of them being friends of the family and all). 

-- 
Mariette
-- 
(wabewawa61-at-earthlink-dot-net)

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