If you have an above average typing speed, then there are several ways of making money online through jobs that involve typing. One such job is medical transcription, which involves listening to voice recordings of doctor dictations and transcribing them into written reports. But in addition to typing, skills required for this job include knowledge of medical terminology, editing, proof reading, etc.

1. Best Typing Jobs to Work from Home
If you are whiz at typing and looking for ways to monetize your skill, then we have news for you. There’s
not one, but several ways to making money from typing jobs. Excited? Wait until you hear the best part.
For a lot of these jobs, you don’t even have to step out of your house.
Yes, you heard that right. Not only can you make money, but you can make money sitting on your living
room couch if you are a skilled typist.
Those who know even a little about online and work from home industry probably think we are talking
about data entry jobs, which involve little more than blindly entering information in to a computerized
database.
If you leave the quality of work out of equation, data entry is a valid means of making money online for
people who are efficient typists. What’s challenging is finding legitimate data entry jobs from the sea of
scams swarming the Internet.
However, we are not talking about data entry here. We are talking about jobs that involve typing, but are
not necessarily just about typing and here are a couple of such jobs:
Medical Transcription
Medical transcription is an allied healthcare profession that involves converting voice recordings of doctor
dictations in to written reports. The professionals who perform this job are called medical transcriptionists
(MTs).
While a large part of an MT’s job involves listening to taped dictations by doctors and other healthcare
practitioners and keyboarding them on a word processor, that’s not all they do. They first have to
understand and interpret the dictations correctly, for which thorough knowledge of medical terminology is
required.
They also have to edit and proof read the documents once they are ready and make sure the reports are
free of any factual, grammatical or spelling errors. After the documents are transcribed, they need to be
formatted into standardized styles.
According to payscale.com, medical transcriptionists can make $9.89 - $19.25 per hour.* Since the
payment in the medical transcription industry is mostly made on per hour or per line basis, it’s clear that
the larger volume of work you are able to finish in a given timeframe, the more money you’ll be able to
make off it.
Being able to type fast is one, but not the only skilled required for this job. That's why attending a
medical transcription school where you can pick up this and other proficiencies is probably a good idea.
Virtual Assistance
Virtual assistance refers to providing administrative and clerical support to a client from a remote
location, which in most cases is the virtual assistant’s (VA) home. Virtual assistants are hired mostly by
small business owners, executives or anyone who wants to reduce costs.

2. Virtual assistants are office administrators, personal assistants and secretaries all rolled into one
convenient and efficient package.
But how does the work they do involve typing, you must be thinking. Well, just scan through the list of
duties that can be potentially performed by a virtual assistant and you’ll understand the importance of
typing in their job:
1. Handling personal and official correspondence for clients.
2. Preparing reports, documentation, and presentations.
3. General, medical or legal transcription depending on the business.
4. Blogging and writing other types of Internet marketing content.
5. Writing website content and marketing collateral.
Of course, this list is by no means comprehensive and has been filtered to include tasks that involve
typing. A virtual assistant’s work can be and in fact, is much more extensive than this. And what can you
expect to get as a VA in terms of wages? Payscale.com data indicates a cool $19.20 per hour. ** Now
that’s a strong reason, if any, to start working on your typing skills!
Sources:
*payscale.com/research/US/Job=Medical_Transcriptionist/Hourly_Rate
**payscale.com/research/US/Job=Administrative_Assistant/Hourly_Rate