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Earn $25 an Hour as a Transcriptionist from home







As mentioned above, since these companies hire newbies, their pay rates are less than the range for more experienced transcriptionists. If you start working for less than $45-50 per audio hour, you may want to use the opportunity to build paid transcription experience, and then look for a higher-paying job.

1. Transcribe Anywhere

Transcribe Anywhere offers online transcription courses that not only teach students how to transcribe, but also how to start their own freelance transcribing businesses.
The online course features modules, practice dictions and quizzes. It even shows you how to create a website and how to secure clients. 

2. TranscribeMe

If you can pass TranscribeMe's short transcription test, you will be put on the waiting list for their transcription projects. These are short, 10-second audio files that you can work on whenever you want, with no deadlines.
The company pays $20 per audio hour, and they do not require any special equipment for transcription prior to getting started. You’ll be paid weekly by PayPal for the work you complete.

3. Quicktate

Quicktate will hire newbie transcriptionists once they pass a skills test. Most of what you will transcribe for Quicktate are short voicemail messages, although there may occasionally be other types of files as well.
After you have done transcription for Quicktate for some time, you may be promoted to iDictate — a sister company that pays slightly more for transcribed files. Quicktate pays approximately one cent for every four words transcribed, while iDictate pays two cents for every four words transcribed. You can work as much or as little as you want, and they pay weekly by PayPal.
4. Rev
You’ll need to pass a skills test prior to claiming transcription assignments from Rev. Like TranscribeMe, you are free to work as much or as little as you like.
Rev’s pay works out to about $24 to $39 per audio hour. They pay weekly by PayPal, and don’t require any special equipment apart from a computer with a reliable Internet connection.

5. Tigerfish

Tigerfish is an older transcription company that has been using home-based transcriptionists to transcribe audio files for their clients since 1989. You’ll need to pass a skills test prior to working for Tigerfish.
Unlike some of the companies mentioned above, Tigerfish prefers that you use transcription software and a foot pedal. However, the company doesn’t share information on pay rates, method, and job frequency until you apply.

6. Crowdsurf

Crowdsurf specializes in providing transcribed media files to the hearing impaired. If you work for Crowdsurf, you’ll have to create an account with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a popular crowdsourced work platform where Crowdsurf houses their transcription tasks. (Make the most of your mTurking time with this trick.)
You’ll earn about five or six cents for every 15 seconds of audio transcribed. You’ll be paid through mTurk, which means you can have your earnings direct-deposited to your bank account at any time provided you've earned at least $1.
If you’re looking to earn a little extra money online, give transcription a try with one of these companies. You won't break the bank, but you will be getting paid to learn how to transcribe audio files — and this could open the door to much better-paying transcription opportunities in the future!

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