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Would anyone share what their income is with me?...wanting to see I am on track of need to strive fo - tbur

Posted: Jul 20, 2010

Of course this is personal but since we can be anonymous on her, would anyone share what they are making in terms of weekly, hourly, monthly or yearly with me? I would like to compare with where I am and determine if I am at a good average or way below and need to be doing more.

I would also love it if you could share production lines per hour or day etc.

Hard to do - pay scales are very regional. - SM

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What part of the country do you live in? Are you full time or part time? There are lots of variables that go into pay scales.

AVerage - justme

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Im in the dirty south. On a good day I average 200 lines an hour, on a very good day I make up to 275 lines an hour, which averages out to 25 - 27 dollars an hour. I have been doing this for 18 years, have a lot of little shortcuts and just happen to love typing. This account is new to me, only been working on it about 2 months now, my old job I averaged 2400 lines a day.

Thank you that is good info - nm - tbur

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nm

Well if someone could share what they make for the hours they work - tbur

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That would help determine where I should be. Many of us work online, so I do not think that where were are in terms of region would matter.

I work at a hospital in the Midwest - Anon

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I make $16.50 per hour with excellent benefits, including 8 hours of paid leave every 2 weeks (which can be accrued up to 720 hours, and be used however I wish). I also don't have to worry about running out of work and not being able to pay bills. I think the pay range is $12 to $17 dollars, depending on experience. Hospitals in larger areas probably pay higher per hour (but the cost of living probably absorbs that anyway). Hope this helps.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 - sm

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Full time job #1: IC, roughly 8 hours a day, although it varies depending on work load on a given day (could be 4, could be 12). Single account 50-ish doctors. $900-1100 every two weeks gross.

Full time job #2: IC, should be 7 hours a day, but work has been low/none for a few weeks. Now about 2-ish hours a day, about $350 every two weeks gross.

My situation is almost identical to thing 1! - ScoobyDoo

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I am almost identical to your 'thing 1' situation! I distract myself way too much with family/kids/household stuff, so I doubt I'll ever be one of those 2000-lines-per-day types!

I average 38-40 hours a week, straight transcription - jt

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and last year made almost $60,000.

That's AWESOME, jt! - tk

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Would you mind sharing whether you are an IC or an employee?

WOW!!! I wish you could share how you accomplish this. - tbur

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I should be striving for more. Anyone who would like to share how they get these numbers, it would be greatly appreciated. I was expecting $25, how do you accomplish beyond that.

I dont know why everyone is so secretive - when this is anonmyous if you wish to be

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I wish more people would be willing to share, but I guess it just depends who you are.
2 years ago I was making about $30 to $35 an hour with a 3 doctor practice. I had a lot of expanders and I had been working for them for 7 years, and I can only explain this by being fast, I was being paid 12 cents a line... Then I got another job at a hospital, these were both IC jobs... I was making about $50,000 a year. I was working A LOT and most of the time 7 days a week though....

Now, I work 30 hours a week and make about $17 to $22 an hour depending on the doctor. It's a major MAJOR cut in pay, I'm making 9 cents a line and I am now an employee. There is one day every week I am scheduled that consists of no work, so that cuts a lot of pay off as well...

Region? - MBethC

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Would you mind telling me in what part of the country do you live?

I live on the west coast - but my employer is in the midwest

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not sure if that helps.

$900-$1000 a week - Typer2

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I do about 280-320 lph @ 9 cpl, do about 35 hours a week.

so you almost do as much as required in 2 weeks - in one week

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is that true? I know for my company it's 12000 lines a pay period. If you go on your high end of 320 LPH, you make almost this much in one week...

is this straight typing? lots of canned text?

I am an EXTREMELY fast typer...and I can make upwards of 300 LPH... well I guess I'm only working about 20 or 25 hours a week so maybe I'm just not doing the math right.. If there was enough work, I would be working as much as you!

I make hay - Typer2

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when I can. There are some weeks that there's not enough work, but on average that's where I fall. I type as fast as most dictators talk, am an old dog so I think in shortcuts!

What am I doing wrong? - LK

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I also type as fast as most doctors talk, make 9 cpl, and make about half of what you do. Any ideas why I can't make what you do? I consistently work about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, sometimes a bit more.

cannot believe everything posted, especially Earnings posts. - n/m

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nm

Maybe, but. . . . - LK

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I think for the most part, people report this stuff honestly. What's the point of lying? I was just thinking, maybe her docs talk faster than mine do, LOL!

People get "creative" for all sorts of reasons. - sm

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Some like to take a miraculous LPH rate that they can maybe type in one hour with a perfect dictator and lots of shorthand tossed in and use that to calculate their hourly wage, when the rest of their hours are considerably less.

Others just seem to get joy out of getting a rise out of the rest of the board. I'm not exactly sure what personal satisfaction they get from it, but if you read through posts here, you'll see it happens a lot. Provocative, questionable, speculative, and disparaging posts are made regularly just to 'stir the pot'.

Believe me, if MTSOs really believed that we were capable of typing 300 lph on a consistent basis, that would be the required minimum. They don't have the 150 lph line count just to be kind. That's more in keeping with the capabilities of the "average" MT while still maintaining an accurate report.

So because you are unable - Typer2

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to type 300 lph consistently, that means someone else cannot? I do, consistently. And usually with popping in and out of here and other forums. I was doing 400+ lph straight typing with another company who then said they couldn't pay spaces effectively cutting production 25%, so I left. But even with a different company, different dictators I consistently do 275-320 lph. I've no reason to lie since this is totally anonymous, what would be the point?

I have years of short-cuts which enables me to usually move the speed up to 125-130% and hit it. Some things just are easier for some than others I guess.

I absolutely agree! - ScoobyDoo

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I worked in-house in the beginning of my career and witnessed first-hand the real money makers! They sat at those desks and did not budge, and those fingers were going the entire time. Yes, they wore wrist splints and were permanently stooped over, but they kept on typing, never stopping except maybe for a quick cig break!

I can't do that. I am average. I type around 150 lines an hour. I make an average of $13.50 an hour. My checks are about $900.00 every 2 weeks. I'm okay with being average.

I have a few at my job that post company wide emails that they've typed 1800 lines and will be back on later to type more. Whatever. Good for them. I'm an average MT that produces above-average quality. I guess in the whole scheme of things, these MT businesses need a variety of both 'average' and 'extraordinary' MTs to get the job done.

Reply to cannot believe - regionmatters

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What you think people are trying to impress you? Someone asked a question and the answers have varied, including whether or not they are paid productivity or straight hourly wage, what region they are working in (which does matter). No reason to lie about it, it is what it is.

THANKS FOR ALL OF THE INFO...PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE...THIS IS GREAT!!! - tbur

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This is very helpful and inspiring. Any helpful tips on what brought you to making more money would be greatly appreciated. THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE FOR SHARING. I love how MTs share and help others to grow.

We are paid twice a month, and each of my - paychecks amounts to about - sm

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$650. This is quite a drop from the $1150-$1200 bimonthly checks I used to get at my inhouse job! :(

INCOME - Pat46

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A couple of weeks ago someone going by annonymous had a post saying that the average salary for a MT was $14.40 an hour and he wanted to know where those jobs are.

I doubt too many of the people working for the companies that pay line rates would make this, especially if they are doing VR.

I work at a hospital that I've worked at for 10 years. We put in the VR system last summer and we all got to go home to work. I am making $14.50 + shift differential of .25 for 8 hours and .50 for 24 hours.

I don't understand why when the companies that have VR cut the line count pay down. I realize you are more productive but we use the same terminology, probably have to use more of it if the machine makes "mistakes".

I am in So. Calif. and make $23/hr straight transcription - nm - regionmatters

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nm

mt salaries - sunrises

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Do you work from home in So. California or at a hospital, lab, etc. ? I am presently looking for MT work in the SD area. I know there is a lab that is hiring, but you have to work on site. Pay in the high teens.

sm - enigma

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That's right. The machine I usually edit for doesn't seem to be learning from its corrections and it takes me longer to edit than straight type. The MTSOs told their clients they could reduce costs by using VR. All they did was make more stress for MTs and lower pay rates. My income has only gone down, down, down over the past 5 years. I used make around $1000 per bimonthly check, feel lucky now if I get $750.

2009 Income - Dewglo

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$9200 taxable income, 40+ hour work week, unable to claim OT even if you worked it, figured up to less than $5.60 an hour for work done; 98% quality but could not meet line quotas due to excessively bad foreign dictators and editing requirements on hospital system that took up mega-time to process; pay cut in half due to editing rather than standard transcription after 20 years of MTing. Does that inspire you? Hope not. I said Goodbye to MTing. This field is a dead end unless the MTs take up the cause and fight for standard hourly wages for accounts that are horrible and demand decent wages. I don't know anyone else in medicine who would settle for the crap that MTs have to put up with on a general basis. Yes, some MTs have great accounts; very few of us, and they are taking more and more "gravy" away from us daily. As I posted earlier, there's no way I would ever go back to MTing unless I had a contract and hourly wages guaranteeing me an income so I could actually consistently purchase food for my family, prescription drugs, gasoline for the car, necessary things to sustain life, etc. MTing is not the job that will fit that bill. Not anymore. Gone are the days of MT glory. Now, we are just slaves.

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