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What is up with all of these companies cutting the pay for straight - transcription? sm


Posted: Jun 07, 2011

I'm not understanding if a person was making 8 or 9 cents a line for straight transcription and then the account goes to voice rec and the pay is decreased for that, why is the pay for straight transcription also going down?  It's the same doctors, so why am I now suddenly worth 2 cents less to do straight transcription?  Personally, if it isn't VR worthy, then you would think that it would still be worth the 8 or 9 cents a line. 

It is called greed. n/m - broke

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Right on n/m! - old timer

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GREED!

Where I work, the client demanded a lower - sm

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rate, therefore we were all dropped down to a tiered system, rather than a flat cpl rate.

It's called "STARVING OUT AMERICAN MTs." - Employer has no scruples! nm

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