How to Earn Money by Typing and Data Entry Jobs

Imagine what would happen if there was no keyboard. Okay, now stop imagining. Because I know how hard it is to imagine a life without a keyboard. The keyboard is the reason how we are able to write. There are hundreds of people who are a good typist, and there are hundreds of jobs waiting for such people. Data entry jobs are best proved for good typists, they can earn a good amount of money by their typing. It doesn’t need any experience nor it needs excellent typing speed.

As a beginner, if you want so you can start with data entry jobs. Later on, with time your typing speed will increase too. Data entry jobs are good for people who don’t have anything to do at home and are looking for the easiest way to earn money online without investment, for example, old people, students, and housewives.

Data entry jobs don’t need any educational background, you just have to type and enter the given data. It’s easy to do the job. You just need a computer, a good internet connection and a comfortable place to sit, which is, of course, your home. It needs a comfortable sitting position because you will be working for long hours. You can pursue data entry jobs while sitting at your home. You don’t have to go to a particular office for the same. A person should be comfortable with Microsoft tools like MS Word, MS Excel, etc. It just takes 10-15 mins to learn to work on these. Rest you yourself will be able to find out by working daily. Different jobs give a different salary, but as a beginner, your salary can range from $1-$10 per day depending on the typing speed.

Few data entry jobs are:

1. Jobs for Filling Forms Online

Online form filling involves simple completion of forms. You will be given forms online you have to fill them and submit them. You will either get the information that you are supposed to fill in the form or you will have to find out on your own. Remember, you have to fill the form with full attention, in order to fill the details correctly.

2. Online Survey Filling Jobs

You have to fill a survey form, which will take around 10-15 minutes of your time. These survey forms are like the feedback of a company’s product. Companies create these survey forms in order to know how their product is processing. Some of the online survey sites are ClixSense, NeoBux, Star Panel, iPanelOnline India, etc. ClixSense and Neobux are PTC and GPT sites too, you can create an account on them and earn while performing small tasks daily.

To know more you can read my articles “What is NeoBux: A PTC Site or A GPT Site“.

3. Normal Typing Job

These jobs include filling details in an excel spreadsheet. You are provided with a word document file and from these files, you have to convert the data in the form of an excel spreadsheet. As a beginner, you can get up to Rs 100 per hour.

4. Captcha Entry Job

I hope you all know what is a captcha code. Captcha code is mainly for security purpose. Sometimes it looks very easy, other times it’s a bit complex. You just have to analyze the code, fill it and submit it. You can get $0.2-$1.5 USD solving per captcha. Some famous websites that offer captcha entry jobs are MegaTypers, ProTypers, and 2Captcha.

5. Data Cleaning

Data cleaning or data scrubbing refers to correcting the data or deleting the errors of the data. You are provided with a word file or an excel file, you have to go through it, detects its errors and correct them. It requires good vocabulary.

6. Medical Transcription

Medical Transcription includes writing the voice recorded medical reports. It also includes taking notes when a doctor is communicating with his/her patient. This work needs experience, else you will not be able to write the names of the medicines correctly. It also needs good typing speed because the one who is speaking will not wait for you to write. He’ll keep on speaking. Some medical practitioners, as well as large hospitals, hire people that can work from their home as medical transcriptionists.

7. Medical Coding

Jobs under medical coding are the highest paying data entry jobs. Medical coding means transforming the healthcare diagnosis and medical services into some medical alphanumeric codes. It’s a very serious job and you have to be very careful. Some experience in medicine is necessary to take up this job.

8. Copy and Paste Jobs

Copy and paste jobs includes copying the data from one file to another, it might be a word file and you have to copy its data into an excel file. It requires correct knowledge of the English language and very less t. You might consider it a very easy task but it’s boring too. You might fed-up copying and copying.

9. Creating Innovative Caption Jobs

Captions are something that attracts the reader. Captions are a combination of rhyming words and good vocabulary. They have to be eye catchy. Mostly media industry appoints people who can create good captions or headlines within a couple of seconds or in a minute or two. Generally, as a normal citizen, even you also know that people read only those articles that have an eye catchy headline.

10. Formatting and Correcting Data Job

Formatting is not an easy job. It requires correct knowledge of MS Word. Basically, formatting includes alignment of paragraphs, font size, font type, indentation, etc. you have to arrange the data of the file in a formatted manner. It includes very less typing work.

11. Conversion of the Audio File to Text

An audio file is given to you. You have to hear it with full attention and then you have to convert this audio file into a text file. You can hear a line, pause the audio and write that one line. If you find any problem in the spelling, do refer google. Don’t write according to what you think is right. Write only if you are sure. You can hear the audio as many times as you want.

12. Conversion of the Image File to Text

Converting an image file is much easier than converting an audio file. Information is provided to you in the form of a screenshot or any image. You just have to read from that image and write it in a word document file. For beginners, starting with Conversion of image file to text file is the best data entry job.

13. Conversion of a Handwritten File to a Word Document

There are many authors who have a habit of using pen and paper. And when their work is completed, they don’t waste their time in copying their writing work to a word document. For this, they look for people who are good typists and can do it for them. They even pay $100-$200 USD per novel.

14. Database Updating Job

You are supposed to update the data present in the excel sheets. For example, it may include data of the product like you will have to keep updating about its sale.

15. Email Processing

Email processing deals with reading the complete email and writing the important points of the email if it is important. Many companies get thousands of emails in a day for this they point for a person who can read these emails and process them. You might have to read hundreds of emails in a day and process them. These companies pay you a very good monthly salary of $600-$800 USD.

16. Content Writing

Unlike other data entry jobs, content writing is different. It requires good writing skills as well as creativity.  If you are a good writer you can write content for various websites and blogs. You can also apply to various freelance platforms like Fiverr as a freelance writer.

To know how can you convert your writing skills into a profession refer “6 Easy ways to earn money by writing jobs?”

17. Proofreading

Proofreading means reading a soft copy of a work, detecting its errors and correcting them. It requires a high knowledge of English so that you can detect grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. It’s very important to do this work with full concentration.

For example, as you already know that even blind students study. They study through a tool in which if they press 1 lesson 1 starts or if they press 2 lessons 2 starts, the system will read the data written in the electronic copy of the book. If there is wrong data or spelling mistake, the computer will read it for them and unfortunately, students will learn this wrong information and it will be a problem for them.

18. Copywriting Jobs

The job of a copywriter is somewhat relevant to that of a content writer. Copywriters create creative advertisements. Their writings have to persuasive and they should know how to popularize their work because that’s what they are appointed for.   

19. Payroll Data Entry job

School, hospitals and various companies appoints typists to enter the data of their organization to keep a record of the people attached with the organization.

For example, a company keeps a record of employees such as employee name, employee address, employee salary, employee field of work, etc. These organizations appoint you like their regular worker.

Here is the list of top 10 Companies offering data entry jobs:

1. ARDEM Incorporated
2. DataPlus
3. Portway
4. SaivionIndia
5. Lake Data Center
6. Coleman Data
7. Capital Typing
8. Perfect Data Entry
9. Invensis
10. Axion Data

It’s completely your choice you can choose any of the mentioned data entry jobs. Starting up with data entry jobs is not a big thing. You can start up whenever you want and earn.

Hope this article was informative for those who are looking for data entry jobs. Readers, don’t forget to comment.