What's the going rate for a daily?

[Kyung]

Now, I know everyone pays their scopists differently.

But I just had a daily and the scopist says that the reporter usually splits it 50/50 with the reporter. Therefore, the scopist would get half of what I bill the attorney. So if I bill the attorney $6/pg, she would get $3/page.

This doesn't seem right to me, but is the industry standard?

She also mentioned getting half of any copies that get ordered.

This was for the court.

[Daniele Self]

I charge 2/pp for a daily myself.

[Karen A. Jones]

Kyung,
I don't know any scopist that charges half of the reporter's page rate or half of any copies for any work, let alone a daily. That's crazy.
What you described sounds like a deal two reporters would work out if they were both working in court on a daily and were scoping for each other.
Here's something else I was wondering: Is the scopist going to be working from home, or is she going to court with you, scoping on-site, proofreading, and printing and binding? If that's the case, maybe that's why she has this percentage thing going on.

[Judy]

Are you sure you didn't misunderstand and what she meant was 1/2 of the expedited portion of the tript? For instance, say you regularly charge $3/page and it's a daily so you're now charging $6/page. Maybe she meant $1.50/page of just the expedite portion, plus her buck+ (or whatever she's charging per page). I certainly don't know, but half of what you earn seems rather expensive. Plus, I'd expect a finished product for $3/page.

[Michelle R. Williamson, CSR]

I always pay my scopist whatever percentage markup I make on a job. For example, if I have a daily and I earn 100% more on the job, then I pay my scopist 100% more on her regular rate. If I make 60% more on a job, then I pay my scopist 60% more on her regular rate, and so on.

[S. Arielle]

1.50 for daily for the scopist

no payment to scopists for copies.

[Karen A. Jones]

Arielle,
$1.50 for daily copy?? That's ridiculously low. Where are you finding these scopists?

[S. Arielle]

The scopist that I use, that's what she charges. I clean up everything before sending it, and i write really good. And the editing goes quick. Now, if I wrote horrible and it would take her forever to scope it, then I guess she would have charged me more. But editing time is quick with my work. (most times)

[Kyung]

UPDATE on the daily.

Well, I worked it out with the scopist. I offered her what I thought was a good rate, and then she said that was too much. So we ended up doing about 100% on the regular rate, which is what everybody is telling me it's running.

So I'm a little confused by what she said. I'm not sure what she thinks the reporters are getting paid on dailies, but it all worked out.

Yay!!! I'm okay and I think she's okay.

That's a relief. Thank you all very much for your input.

[S. Arielle]

She's probably not sure on what the reporter gets on dailies because all states are different......NY doesn't pay double on dailies or the 1/2 on expedites.......NY and Pa do and so does CA. So the rate depends also on what the reporter is getting because it wouldn't be fair if the scopist is getting more than the reporter, so that's why there has to be a compromise on some jobs....all depending on the situation.

Glad you worked it out.

[Christy Fagan, CRR, RMR, CSR]

I've never heard of that ever! That's a crock. She's not a reporter and therefore she doens't get paid what we get paid. If your regular rate is $1.50 a page for a socpist, then $3 would be double and that would be the going rate, I would think. We get to charge our double page rate and they get to charge their scopist page rate times two. And the copies have nothing to do with her. That's ridiculous.