pay for academic transcription

[cos]

Question for those if you in the world of northeast US universities: What would you consider reasonable hourly pay for hiring someone to transcribe recorded audio interviews to text, in support of someone's research?

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[athenasbanquet.livejournal.com]

I did interviewing/transcription for a project at University of Washington, and iirc (I just double-checked and this is about right) I got $25/hour, where hours = hours clocked working, not hour of tape. This was combined time of interviewing to transcription, which worked out to about 1:1.5 - 2.