software engineer

account executive

transcriptionist

senior software engineer

As someone who is usually a skeptic with regards to online pyramid schemes, temporary work, and other work-from-home endeavors that are too good to be true - I finally got burned.

I was put in a rough financial situation and sought out the quickest method to make money remotely. Saw a sponsored listing for Rev on Indeed, and initially was super on-board with the idea. I grew up learning to read through closed-captioned programming, and have overcome years of auditory processing issues; however, I've been transcribing interviews and lyrics for several years now as a hobby, and enjoy doing so. So I thought, "This seems like it will be interesting."

Took the initial test, passed with flying colors. Got all set up and began to transcribe. It took me ages to be able to find audio that wasn't abysmal quality, but I found some for a documentary and a few radio interviews. I enjoyed their user interface and resources for transcription, and things seemed to be going well. 

When I got my "grades" back, most were perfect in terms of accuracy, but several of the reviewers had significantly dinged me for not following their Style Guide close enough. Okay, I thought, that makes sense. I admit that I hadn't given it an in-depth read, and I was still new to everything. So I studied a bit harder before I continued on.

Then the emails started coming in. The emails telling me that I was on "probation" for not meeting the Rev target metrics, and warning me that I was subject to having my account terminated if I didn't improve those metrics within a set amount of transcribed minutes. Even if I had gotten a perfect score on a transcription, if I hadn't met that target yet (I was stuck at 4.40 with 100% commitment, instead of their ideal 4.50), that threatening email still made its way to my inbox alongside every grade I received. Over and over.

At this point I started getting suspicious, started to look up other reviews for the company, and saw nothing but a slew of disgruntled past and present Revvers. Alas, still being desperate, I figured that the system they had in place for newcomers was just trying to weed out the folks who wanted a quick buck but didn't want to put any effort into the job. And so I continued on until I finally progressed out of the Rookie stage into being a Revver.

After I reached the 4.50 metric, a day later, another grade came in for transcription work I had done after my rank progression and knocked me back down. At first I was shocked, since Rev says that once you've become a Revver, your transcriptions go straight to the customer instead of passing through a reviewer like before. The fine print, however, states that your transcriptions will periodically be selected for grading. And once again, the "poor performance" emails came back, along with a message I have to see every time I log into Rev, stating that if my metrics go down any more within the next 120 days, I'll be immediately terminated. No talk of whether I'd get paid for the work I did or not.

It was at this point that I began thoroughly examining each of my grades and noting the comments on them all, hoping to contest the extremely nitpicky dings.

Rev state that they want you to perform external research if you don't know how to spell a name, term, brand, etc. I did exactly that with one of my transcriptions, since the audio was from a research and development meeting for a large brand, and I was not familiar with all of their competitors. It was clear as day once I did this research that another brand was mentioned; I made sure to spell and capitalize it properly. I was dinged for "inaccuracy" because the reviewer thought it was a totally different string of words instead of a brand. Despite those words making no sense whatsoever in that context. The process of disputing is useless. You can't speak to someone in real time like advertised. Disputed claims are usually denied or flat-out ignored. It's a waste of time, just like the entirety of this company.

I'm honestly pretty upset because I wanted this to work out. I'm going to look into much more reputable transcription work, because I like knowing I can make a difference by providing captioning and transcriptions. I have not been fired yet, but at the time of writing this, I am waiting to be paid for my last week of work before doing anything else. I do not want to jeopardize the money I rightfully earned by attempting to transcribe something and having it not meet their asinine standards, making my account and my income disappear. I'm pretty convinced this complete lack of job security is benefiting them, and they have no intention of making things right. Most of what I've said is like a broken record when you read other reviews. Don't make the mistake I did. Don't even bother.

I started working for Rev to supplement income. The hiring process is relatively easy and upon completing the initial captioning "test" a job offer comes fast if you pass. Things can get get tricky after this. Job security is based on a metrics system in which you are graded as a rookie on every project in the areas of accuracy/formatting/alignment. Alignment metrics are relatively easy to maintain unless you just don't try or review your work. Accuracy and formatting, however, are an entirely different story. You must maintain a 4.5 across all 3 levels to stay out of danger of being deactivated. You are graded by other Rev employees who have advanced to higher levels. In itself, this isnt a terrible thing, but some graders are a bit more harsh than others and there is really no firm baseline for grading. For instance, some of the files have sketchy audio and you will have to sometimes listen repeatedly to pick out what is being said based on the context of the rest of the file. If your grader decides that isnt what they "think" is being said in the file then it will be considered a major error and you will receive a 3 for accuracy. With this system you can be maintaining perfectly acceptable metrics, but then when hit with that arguable 3, it will drop you below their acceptable standards. Even getting a 4, which is considered acceptable for customer use, more than a couple of times will hurt you. Formatting is also very hard to maintain. There is a style guide that covers basics, but in no way covers all scenarios you will encounter. First option is to go to the forums. You will almost always get input on the forums, but many times the information you get will be contradictory so you are still left unsure of what is correct. There is an option to contact support or get expert help. I've not experienced that as of yet, but from reading on the forums it can be a timely process and you have a deadline. Errors in punctuation, such as a grader feeling a comma was not needed, will get you graded a 4, dropping your metrics. One of the biggest problems with working for Rev is the small amount of time in which perfection is expected and there is little wiggle room for improvement. One low grade can drop metrics significantly and you are given a certain amount of file time to bring it back up. This limits you to having to choose small 1 and 2 minute files in order to get enough good grades to bring it back up without exhausting your time. My experience has been that most of the smaller files, especially in the Rookie stage, are of poor audio quality and questionable to undertake. Certainly not files you would want to take on to try to improve your metrics.

 Pay is definitely nothing to brag about. It can vary from $0.54 to $0.90 per minute of video. That is not per minute that it takes you to do it. If you have a 25 minute video paying $0.64 per minute, you will get $16 for it. Depending on content, it could take anywhere from an hour to several hours to do it. You can review files before claiming, but you have to be fast or they get claimed by other people. Audio quality can be quick to check, but there are other things besides audio quality that can make a file time consuming. For instance, you may find a superb audio quality file of a teacher doing a video course and claim it. If the instructor then begins talking about a subject you are not familiar with, say bio-physics, you will find yourself spending a lot of time researching how to spell certain terms. Your average person isnt going to know that mitochondria-specific super-numerary subunits has hyphens, so you will spend a lot of time researching. Additionally, even in simple files, someone may mention a town with an odd name but you have no idea what state they are in. You could spend a considerable amount of time researching trying to figure out how to spell the town they mentioned based off of other "clues" in the file. Misspellings are errors that will get you dinged on accuracy. You will sometimes get lucky and a customer has unusual town names, people names, etc in the notes, but that's unusual. I will say I have gotten some files that were really easy, but those are few and far in between. 

Overall, Rev is a decent option for making extra spending money as long as you are okay with sometimes spending your whole day making $16. It should not be relied on for sole income as job security is basically nonexistent.

I am super frustrated and displeased with the management of this service! I have never left a negative review for any company before, so I will take the consideration to explain why I feel the way I do. 

My account was deactivated moments ago, even though I still have two submissions that I completed, of four, last night that are still under review. Those remaining two submissions could have helped my metric score a great deal. That is completely unfair! They deactivated my account because of an issue keeping up with the "minimum" requirements and metrics. I was at a 4.4/5 for accuracy and a 5.0 prior to my last submission, which I disputed for absolutely silly punctuation errors, of which there were very few. The minimum for accuracy alone is 4.5. Who's running Quality Control?

First of all, the metric system is too critical! You dock points for an ellipses not having spaces between words, seriously? This would not confuse a reader, yet you tell me in my "good" feedback that I did a good job and was able to grasp a lot of the content! Well, which one is it, then? You tell me to not correct the speaker or interviewer's English or level of fluency, but then when I write what is being said verbatim, (even in Spanish!) it becomes a problem? 

Second, I submitted close to eight projects within less than a week's time, because I enjoyed it. Let's be clear, this was something I really liked doing. I was learning in ways I didn't consider, and would immerse myself in the content. I feel that is what makes for a good transcription worker, actually having an invested interest in what you are listening to, in addition to content clarity. Do you guys realize how much time some of us are putting in to these assignments? Probably not! I could have gotten much better overtime, but you deactivating my account is so disappointing! This would have made for decent supplemental income and something I could add to my resume.

Additionally, we all know this is all underpaid work. Nonetheless, I worked diligently on every assignment, some of which had been unclaimed by anywhere from for to six different contractors, before I took the job. And on top of that, I am responsible for fixing other Revver's unclaimed work, yet I have seen plenty of mistakes, plenty! Where's the credit for that? There is none! I don't even get to contest or dispute my deactivation? Why not?

Still, I completed all of my work! All of it. I don't even know if I am to be paid for the ones I have completed thus far, as payment is scheduled for Mondays, and I completed assignments last night. With each project completed,  I was extremely proud of all of them. Not having experience with transcription in the past, I figured I would give it a try. I felt like I was really making good strides, but this is a major let-down.

I felt like I was very concise and punctual with my submissions. I am my own worst critic when it comes to accuracy and doing concise work, so why not have a punctuation/grammar check option instead of just a spell check option? I would have taken great pride in providing a useful service, but now I feel discouraged. I made it to 90% even though I completed all of my hours, this is just sad.

In my experience, they do not care about your commitment, yet mine was 100%. My submissions and formatting were near perfect each time. I actually really enjoyed the work itself, but the management is so poor. How can the consumer have such absurd expectations of the transcribers when most of the audio is such poor quality?? That makes absolutely no sense! 

One good remark: I had one issue with my software lagging as I typed, so I reported this concern, and a customer service agent did assist me with that in a timely manner, for which I am thankful. So thank you Ms. Holly Hawkins! This is my only positive feedback, sadly. 

I would double, even triple check my assignments prior to submission, never unclaimed one assignment, no matter how mundane the topic or interview. I work two jobs when I (was) not transcribing. Consider that, and still I had a strong commitment to each assignment I completed. I'm sad it didn't work out.

Good luck to any newcomers. You have been warned.

You make anywhere from 32 cents to 60 cents per minute of audio. That means that at the most you would make $12 dollars for transcribing a 20-minute audio clip. Sounds great right? Absolutely not, "The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute (WPM)". That means that it would take an average typer 1 hr 30 min + to transcribe the audio. Not the mention that most of the times the audio is of very poor quality and if you have to use too many "Inaudible" timestamps, the people that grade your work knock you down on your Accuracy score. You get two scores, one for formatting according to their style guide (which is another thing I'll talk about in a second) and accuracy. On to their style guide, it's about 28 pages, but for the most part, the way their graders do their scores is subjective. You are paid for every file you transcribe, no matter the score. But here's the kicker if your Accuracy or Formatting average drops below a 4.5/5 for more than a few consecutive transcribing gigs, then they permanently delete your account, and by the time they notify you, you are unable to dispute any of the claims. From their website, "As a rookie your projects will be sent to Quality Control to provide you feedback on your work. If your metrics do not meet our Revver targets by the time you’ve completed 45 minutes of work, you will be given an additional 55 minutes to improve them. If your metrics are still not up to par after a total of 100 minutes, your transcription account will be deactivated."
As seen below, I'll explain to you why it is a ridiculous standard to try and maintain a 4.5 average or above. 

I'll give you a direct example of a review I was given. I was given a 2/5 for accuracy and then a 5/5 for formatting on a 5 min 42-sec clip. But then when I go to the graders suggestions for how to improve my work this is what it said. "What did the agent do well: Excellent transcription, especially given the audio quality. Transcriptionist took their time and produced a very accurate transcription." 
So you tell me how ridiculous their standards are for me to get a review like that but then only get a 2/5 for accuracy. It kicked my accuracy score down to a 4.16 but my formatting score is at a 4.71.

Lastly, you start out in the category called "Rookie", then if you meet all of the qualifications you can be a Revver, then if you somehow grow an extra 5 fingers and do nothing else with your life, then maybe you could meet all the qualifications to be a Revver +. The funny thing is that as a Rookie you are given a limited amount of work (Understandable) but they count the grades from a two-minute clip the same as a 16-minute clip. And so if you spend hours working on a long clip and get a 5/5 on both categories, your good standing could be tainted by some 3-minute audio clip that the grader decided wasn't good enough (even though it was the same quality of work that made a 5/5 on a longer clip). So if you make a mistake on a short audio clip, it drops your average down. Just like in school, the only way to bring your average up is to consistently score well. What's difficult about being a Rookie is that both Revvers and Revver+ members get access to the files much sooner than the Rookies, meaning that it is extremely difficult to get access to work. Or even if you do manage to find a file that hasn't already been claimed, chances are many people have already unclaimed the file due to bad audio quality or very heavy accents. So by the time work trickles down to the Rookies, its almost impossible to transcribe. Because if people that have been transcribing for months a.k.a. the Revvers and Revver+ members can't transcribe it, obviously, people with little to no experience are going to be able to *sarcasm*. It is a very high-pressure environment because one wrong move and the graders will come down on you like the forces of Hades, and you stand the chance of losing your account. 

It was okay at first, but the stress this job cause is not worth the garbage excuse that they call "Fair Pay" *See the first paragraph* 

0/10 WOULD NOT WORK FOR THIS POOR PYRAMID SCHEME OF A COMPANY.

My actual job is in transcription services, so I'm pretty experienced when it comes to verbatim typing, spelling and grammar, and dealing with challenging audio. I mainly started with Rev for a little bit of extra income, as our pay has recently been cut at work and I was looking for options with flexible schedules to make up some of the difference. 

The "hiring" process is simple. Fill out a quick form with some personal info, then complete a short grammar test to make sure you're a competent writer. A couple days later, you receive the email telling you whether you were accepted and how to get going. 

For me, the biggest things to get used to between Rev and my regular, traditional transcription job were the style guide and the audio quality. Every company that deals with written products is going to have slightly different standards for how they want things done, how they want notations made, etc. Thankfully, Rev does have a guide that lays out how they want you to do things and it's fairly easy to follow. You also receive feedback on all of your initial jobs, so if you're not sure if you're doing something the preferred way, you'll find out quickly and be able to correct it moving forward. it was fairly quick and easy for me to adapt to the Rev style guide, as it's not significantly different that the one we use at my primary job. All of my grading I've received thus far seems fair, and I've been able to apply the feedback to subsequent jobs to avoid making the same errors again.

As other people have said, a lot of the audio is quite bad. I'm used to better audio, as most of my usual jobs are someone in a room alone talking into a phone/recorder for the express purpose of having it transcribed, so the person being recorded is very aware of having to be articulate enough to be understood later. Since anyone can use Rev, you'll get recordings that range from good quality recorded notes from a professional setting to be transcribed, to conversations between eight people that sound like they're taking place in the middle of a construction site. The good thing is, you're able to preview audio before you take a job, and after you accept a job, you still have a set amount of time to return it if you find that it actually is inaudible an impossible to understand. When I pick a job, I usually have to try a few before I find one I can hear well enough to be confident I can do it accurately. You're then also able to "favourite" users, so I always add the people who provide good audio to my favourites list in order to find their jobs easier later. 

The biggest downside (or upside) to Rev is you're paid by minutes transcribed, not how much time you actually spend working on something. A great quality three minute clip might only take you four minutes to type and then spell check and review, earning you about a dollar for four minutes of your time (roughly $15 an hour). However, a terrible quality 10 minute job might take two hours of your time and you'll only earn three dollars for your trouble. If you're a fast typist who makes very few errors (and therefore don't have to spend much time reviewing) and are selective with the jobs you pick, taking the time to find good ones, I think it's realistic to be able to earn up to what you'd make at a minimum wage job if you put the time in. However, expecting much more than that is unrealistic, as you'd have to spend more a disproportionate amount of time and effort finding the jobs that are actually worth your time to do. 

Overall, it's a great way to make some extra money working on your own schedule from anywhere you have an internet connection, especially if you have a good grasp of language and grammar already, but not realistic to depend on as steady, primary employment, as the time you'd have to put in to find jobs worth doing could be better spent working at an hourly job.

I was pretty hyped to start doing online audio transcriptions, as I am a pretty fast and accurate typist, and I can do this from home!  Going in, Rev gives you a couple "training" videos, which are actually just you transcribing short, challenging audios, with them popping up "tips" here and there.  You are given 100 audio minutes to prove that you are able to transcribe accurately, and you are graded after each piece of work you do to that endeavor, even the training videos.  You can be scored between 1-5, 5 being "near perfect".  You get your sores after each audio you transcribe, along with about 50 thousand other email "reminders" to tell you that your work is below average (even when all your scores are 5's), and to remind you of late work (even when over an hour remains until the deadline).  It's a LOT of emailing.  My biggest issue is, after a week of busting my hump on audio transcriptions (I'm talking 4 hours+ to transcribe a single 20 minute audio file), and scoring 5's the entire time, I still got terminated after my 100 hours claiming my scores didn't measure up to their standards.  Again, I scored 5's on all of my work, which is the highest score you can have, and somehow they averaged all 5's to be JUST under the 4.5 mark... and here's the kicker; there is no way to dispute your score.  My account was terminated ASAP.  I was unable to login, and I was unable to ask about or dispute my score.  Once you become one of their transcriptions (assuming that's actually possible), they claim you have access to more jobs, and higher wages, however I believe that this is a SCAM, to get cheap transcription work.  I was indeed paid for the 100 hours I did transcribe, however it was at the minimum pay amount despite my perfect 5 scoring.  They pay you through paypal, without fees.  I am tempted to start a second trial account, in order to determine if I would be terminated again after another 100 perfect hours, but at the same time I am trying to tell myself that it wasn't me, that it's just a lousy company.  It's a huge bummer to work so hard on something only to be told you aren't good enough with CONSTANT email reminders telling you that you are below their average transcription standard, especially when you are literally scoring the highest possible score for accuracy AND formatting.  You also have to fight for audio files to transcribe.  One or two will pop up every hour or so and you have to basically sit and constantly refresh the page, and race to be the first to "claim" it.  The instruction manual instructs you to carefully preview the audio file before claiming it, to determine if it's within your ability range (accents, bad audio quality, etc), but do not do that.  You just grab and go; and if you miss it, you're out of luck until the next one pops up.  There are also VERY conflicting instructions.  You are given a manual to read that explains their formatting procedure, and what words to omit, etc. however some of the people grading your work have graded me incorrectly (they put notes in your grades on what you did wrong, if anything), such as, you should have used a hyphen rather than an ellipses, even when the manual tells you to use an ellipses in that situation (small errors in small quantities will not apparently affect your scoring).  They also send you a mandatory quiz about halfway through your training hours, to see how you are doing, and they give you tips and answers in the quiz which actually do NOT coincide with what the manual says.  They literally set you up to fail by giving you completely conflicting instructions.  I did enjoy their intuitive UI used for the transcribing, however.  keyboard commands to insert timestamps, and to back up the audio; to pause and play with just keystrokes makes for quicker work, however I cannot get passed the idea that Rev is scamming you (while shaming you) for cheap transcription work before they drop you and move on to another.  Don't waste your time.

Completely mobile. Home or from your phone. All online. On their secure server. Their own editor. Advancement in stages. Currently here and haven't been employed that long but disagree with the bulk of the negativity. I see it, as a professional typist, as a great opportunity. Whether your only job or if it is an early rung on a ladder towards some other goals of yours .. If you're a typist? I don't see what's to complain about?

The jobs vary in time. The only jobs I"ve seen less than 4hrs until due were short ... Again, I am a professional typist. I'm only at 111 wpm average so in my range of speed and 95+ accuracy at that speed, it's great. If you're at a typing job and you're not typing at least 80wpm? I don't know what to tell you. A school front office secretary has to at least type 75-80wpm. So, just use that as an example. You start as a Rookie .. you have to type 60 min & keep your Metrics 75% accuracy, 4.5/5 scale Formatting, etc. It isn't rocket science. I'm my own person and yes, there's no extra benefits because it's a fairly simple work-from-home, remote, mobile and completely flexible positon. My review is honest and maybe later something bad will happen ... maybe not? 

I hope this helps if people actually read these reviews. A typical work day without giving away any private information is like any other transcription site, for the most part ... but at Rev, I love it best because it's literally all on their site. It's motivating and that pressure to finish jobs is necessary as it would be that way if you were working at a physical operation. Other sites I worked for, companies, they made it easier to be lazy with 2 days due for every job. Whereas, you have choices here. Yeah, a lot of audio is difficult/shoddy. The world isn't perfect. To me? That's a challenge. But, most of it, in my opinion is perfectly transcribable ... of course, at Rookie, for first 60min and as per Metrics which are all based on Accuracy, Formatting, On-Time Submissions, and Completions ... that's the initial stage and yes, the audio is horrible. But, I moved RIGHT out of Rookie into Revver and I feel so much better! 25% more $ per job, etc. Next is Revver+ ... then as Revver+ there's parallel, supplemental advancements like Reviewer and Grader. Also, as a Revver .. you automatically have a chance at Captioning. But, I'd only try that if you're already knowledgeable or feel fairly confident. Otherwise, waiting a second til I gain more hands-on experience.

All in all ... If you're a typist, at least 80wpm, and willing to learn, progress, sharpen your skills, make money, can read, write, excel at grammar, style, composition, and comprehension, have a good ear, or a natural ear, understand audio, typing, how to operate the Internet, basic functions, can follow rules and directions, etc. You will love it here, I personally think.

Lastly, the Forums. That stuff about Rev not getting back to you in days? I somewhat agree ... At the same time, the Forums ... where there are mean and aggressive, nasty people in the world? There's even more nice, supportive, and helpful people. There's advancement and automatically you have 1 shot without even applying, to Caption $1.50-3.00 per minute. I have seen professional captioning jobs with huge salary + benefit pay scales but, hey ... Those people are no joke, typing at least 180-220wpm as they, like stenographers, are at the top of the professional typing game. So, if you're a young or old or middle aged typist looking for extra income or on average $2k a month, I can see that easily occurring ... and looking also for a challenge as well? Because it's hard enough working from home? I'd come to Rev. Give it a shot. I love it so far!

I was really thrilled when looking for an at home job and came upon Rev thinking that my struggles were finally over. I was completely wrong through. The best part of the job is being able to choose when you work and not working if you don't feel like it or need to. They pay every week which was also really nice! So in the beginning everything seemed perfect, but that should have been enough of a hint as to what it really was.

From the very start you're basically on your own, there isn't anyone to reach out to with questions, no one to discuss anything that didn't seem clear in their style guide. You have no manager to report to, no one to ask for direction unless you want to message their 'support' staff and wait for a response. You're literally left to get things right or wrong and be graded by other people who are just like you. Even after the training videos you're not really prepared for what you're going to face after the "training" period where you're transcribing videos they made for you with no real direction. After that you're offered longer and higher paying transcriptions but at the drastic cost of quality audio or video. And their clients get to grade you too! As if you aren't already feeling self conscious about it, and their grade of you can and will influence if you're able to see or do any of the projects again.

Then there is their metric system that I feel completely throws new transcribers under the bus and sets them up for failure. You're given an hour from the time you claim a project to unclaim it without penalty. That hour sounds like more than enough time and it normally is! But there are circumstances that cause people to unclaim projects after that time and you're penalized for it! They want you to keep a metric of 8.0 it's the amount of projects completed DIVIDED by the number you've unclaimed after that hour! It's so easy to throw it off! So that basically means that you can only unclaim one project for every 8 that you do after that hour no matter what. If your metric falls below you're given a warning and put on a probationary period. During this probationary period ANY of your metrics not just the one that got you put on it can cause them to deactivate your account with them and land you out of a job.

Aside from that it's a constant competition to get a transcription that you can actually understand and hear everyone on. They get claimed so quickly that most of the time you need to claim it before you can even hear the recording to even have a chance at a project. Oh! And if you unclaim a project you CANNOT reclaim it. So make sure you don't accidentally unclaim a project.

Most of the time projects are impossible to transcribe, the audio and video is horrible at best and you're left frustrated. Many have people talking over each other, audio cutting in and out, one person sounds crystal clear and the other you can't hear at all. You get graded for that still even if they "say" they take the audio quality into account.


Simply put: I would never recommend Rev to any of my friends or family members looking for a job, and have actually talked numerous family members out of applying. The only good thing is weekly pay, you decide your hours, and if you don't want to work for months you don't have to(except for a state or two). The negative: Stressful, terrible audio, NO training, no supervisors, you don't work you don't get paid, set up for failure from the start and many projects don't pay as well as they should, especially for the quality of the audio.

I had never heard of this company before a friend of mine got accepted as a transcriber and was very excited to start. It sounded great, work from home, set your own hours, etc. When I went to the site for more information on the job, I felt it was definitely lacking; the job is made out to be an exciting career that you can advance in and have fun and get paid all while working from home. The parts they don't tell you is that you are paid via PayPal and you are a self-employed independent contractor (kind of like Avon, Tupperware, etc.) so they do not withhold any of your earnings for taxes - so be careful if you make more than about $400/year.

With the information I did find, this job seemed like it might be a good fit, so I applied for a position as a captioner. I passed the first test and then the last two before being hired on to caption videos. During the application process, the first video is only a few minutes long, but you have like four hours to complete it -  simple. The second two tests you then have two days to complete and they are also short videos. I feel for sure that these assessment tests are very misleading as to the type of work that would be performed. The actual videos you end up having to transcribe, while similar in length, you don't have two days to complete, not even four hours... you have between 50 minutes to a few hours.

Once I was hired, I went to assign myself jobs, sorting through the grab bag of available videos needing to be captioned; this is where it got fun... Once someone claims a video, it is no longer available for you to claim, so you have to claim it fast or you lose it. On the plus side, you can preview the job to see if you want to take it, though, it can also be claimed in the time you're previewing it. So far I have only done a couple of videos since being hired and it is simply because of the time limit to complete the captioning is stressful, to say the least. I think they have a system that gives you a set time to complete a job based off of the length of the video; while it looks like you would only need 50 minutes to complete a one to two-minute video, it can sometimes be barely enough time.

In the time given, you are required to transcribe the audio, spell check and grammar check while meeting the styling and formatting guidelines they provide. After you've managed to decipher the sometimes difficult to hear audio, you then have to synchronize the captions to the video and make sure those line up properly, before submitting the video. By the time you have done everything, you've probably listened to your one-minute video a dozen or more times and researched multiple words to ensure proper use and spelling and now only been paid less than $1 for the time worked.

On the plus side, you can actually go up in levels and have more options, supposedly with higher time limits and better pay. The problem though is finding the drive to want to put in the work to get there. After doing only a couple of videos, I really don't know if I want to do more based off of the low pay for the quality of work that I put into the job.

I do both transcription and captioning for Rev. Overall, I like working for Rev. This is the first real job that I have ever really had. So far, I have been with this company now for over two months, and I am enjoying it. I choose from a list of available files and choose the one I want. I get paid every Monday like clockwork at around 9 AM EST via PayPal, with the exact amount earned from Sunday-Saturday going by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) with no fees or taxes taken out.  

The application process was fast and easy for me. All I did was take a grammar test and transcribed/captioned a sample file. They gave me a very descriptive tutorial before I did the sample file, so I was better prepared completing that file. I heard back for transcription within hours and captioning took less than a day. I started right away with paid practice files that allowed me to get my feet wet and improve on my skills. The first 60 minutes were all graded by more experienced Revvers. They left constructive feedback on every file during that time, which helped me to improve for future projects. It took me less than a day to get promoted to Revver in transcription, but took over a month for captioning. 

Captioning is harder to get into than transcription because there is more that goes into it and more standards to it, as it involves syncing the captions on screen at the appropriate time along with writing out what is said into caption groups.

Pay during that time was very little, but once I finished those first 60 minutes and maintained the appropriate metrics, pay increased tremendously. Lowest pay on Revver status is .45 per minute and .54 in captioning. Pay per minute depends on the quality of the file, the number of unclaims it has, and the age of it. 

Unlike some reviews, I have had a positive experience with Rev so far. I can claim projects as a choose and work at my own leisure in the comfort of my own home. I learn so much from the files that I transcribe and caption from people and businesses all around the world. I have transcribed/captioned sermons, many interviews, group discussions, phone calls, court hearings, and even TV show segments. I would recommend Rev to those that have great english skills, those who have extra time on their hands, and those that are looking to make some extra money. In my first two months I have made nearly $800. And now that I hit Revver Plus status, I get access to every available file old and new, which means that amount will be increasing. 

While many files in Revver status are not as good, keep looking, because you will find one that has good audio. Do not get discouraged if a grader leaves bad feedback, take what they say and use it to improve. Trust me, it is worth it in the end when you reach that Revver Plus status and can gain access to every file old and brand new, because they get access to the first 90 minutes of a file, and those not claimed after that go to Revvers. I would also recommend investing in a good pair of headphones, a good keyboard, and a foot pedal, which has helped me a good bit.

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