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One thing I can say is there are always jobs - The board is full of work. - NCMT

Posted: Sep 04, 2010

I love it. Even Radiology pops up every couple of days or so, which is what I do. If you want to work, there is work. Unfortunately you have to watch out for the scams - but basically there's work if you can do it. I think we should thank MT Stars for bringing us this medium to look for jobs, and vent. Thank you MT Stars.

Theres work alright, but work that actually pays - the bills, there is very little of.

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7 cpl was decent pay back in 1976, but it just doesn't cut it in 2010.

Well, I was hired 2 weeks ago at just over 9 cpl so - it does happen. nm

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Awesome - Way To Go!!! - NCMT

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Good for you.

Im already making 9cpl. Barely enough to live on. - nm

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Good start. Can you now work on building speed? NM - No Answer Needed

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and get tendinitis! - Great idea!

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I love how people tell you to "just go faster." LOL. Why don't I just pound my head on the kitchen counter when I want to eat, maybe that'll work!

Sounds like a new diet! - LOL

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gotta laugh sometimes!

Can I have fries with my tendinitis? - nm

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No, Sweetie, set goal of doubling production with - same # of keystrokes,

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and then work toward it until you're there. Advise wasting no time or energy pounding head on counter. Your choice, of course, but just don't see the point.

And focus, focus, focus. - nm

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yes yes the many "techniques" - to improve production

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Thereby increasing pay. How about this one...a raise! LOL. What a concept!

delusional - you are new! raise,,,hahahaha,,,I dare ya! - no message

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Raise won't help enough if speed is 1990s crawl. - You will still go broke. SM

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I've spent more than a decade working, working at getting faster, giving myself pay increases for most of those years. I'm still working hard at it because line rates have fallen, and now I'm hustling to keep up and maybe still inch ahead a bit.

Nice incomes on production work don't drop from the sky. You have to train yourself to be fast.

and your hands don't hurt? - been there, done that.

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I was one of the highest producers, trying to make up for the constant pay cuts. Up to 2500 lines per day, just to make what I was making in previous years. I ended up in physical therapy, with swollen hands and wrists, pain, tingling, numbness and inability to type or do anything else for awhile. Not worth it to me anymore.

Sorry. It does sound like you had a VERY good income - EARNINGS DATA posted here

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before. I entered the field as the gravy days were shutting down, never pulled in a lavish income, and have only been paid for production. The very high hourly pay salaries offered to lure employees away from others back when good MTs in an area could be very hard to come by simply cannot be matched today. That's not to say decent incomes appropriate to this clerical specialty cannot be earned, and I do.

At my company about 2200 transcribed lines produced consistently (the best people match or top that #, a more lot don't) earns an extra 2 cents for every line over one's base rate.

2200 lines divided by 8 = 275 LPH.
At only 8 cents base (I make more), that's 10 cents a line x 275 = $27.5 per hour.
$27.5 per hour x 2000 hours/year = $55,000.
Of course, people who actually produce at these levels almost certainly are paid a higher base rate.

A lot more employees find maybe 240-250 LPH sustainable, for one-and-a-half cents more per hour above base rate.
Assuming the same lowish base rate, that's
9.5 x 240 = $22.80/hour x 2000 hours/year = $45,600
9.5 x 250 = $23.75/hour x 2000 hours/year = $47,500.

Some find a niche at maybe only 225 LPH for an additional cent per line, etc. for the match. People who are fully skilled should all be able to produce at that level, barring ones with disabilities. Newbies should work toward it.

These yearly incomes do require that skill and fannies squarely in the chair for a full-time work week, but a lot of people do produce those lines per hour and can earn that general range of yearly income--if they choose. I do think it's a decent income for this work, even after the gravy days.

BTW, line counts and other data are posted anonymously at my company, so we can go in and count just how many of us are producing 200 to 300 LPH (not at all unusual, even if most of them don't seem to come here to talk about it), AND how many hours people are actually working too. Obviously, $27/hour x only 27 hours per week lands one in a whole different (lower) socioeconomic group.

Hope all this bother helps someone. Happy typing!

what do you think production is, honey? It ain't hourly pay, you have to do it - or pretty much button up..N/M

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Yep! Work faster, work smarter, that gives yourself a raise! - MTinNC

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.... and the analaogy is? .... - n/m

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the analogy is - sm

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If I want to eat, its going to cause me some pain (as working here anymore causes tendinitis). So, thats the analogy!

Shorter still: The ant and the grasshopper. - Snuggling up for Winter NM

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I have made a game of tweeking how I work. I have added - much speed which equals more lines.

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Good for you! Fun watching those line count grow! NM - Congrats

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new transcribers - Sharon

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I have found a lot of jobs but how does a new transcriber ever get someone to give them a chance?

transcriber - not

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you are a transcriptionist

transcriptionist - Sharon

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What? I recently completed a course in medical transcription.

transcriber versus transcriptionist - Positive energy

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What Sharon is says is that the correct way to identify ourselves is transcriptionist not transcribers!!! When I was a newbee I went to my local doctor offices and gave them a flyer. That worked for me. Good luck.

transcriber or transcriptionist - Viva

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I've found that when doing job searches online, I have to do searches with the keyword transcriptionist and also transcriber because both are still in use, although the former is preferred as far as usage.

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