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Advice needed for VR + regular transcription - gitarMT

Posted: Oct 25, 2009

being paid hourly for VR but also am now doing regular transcription intermingled randomly so hourly pay is becoming "pay by the minute" because 1 report will be VR for a coupla minutes, then the next is regular.

anyone else experiencing this? if so, are you making any substantial money, can it be done?

many thanks,

gitarMT

Are you new at doing VR? - Questions

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The reason I am asking, I along with others were paid hourly when starting VR and once VR in place, then changed over to the pay per line for VR. I also have straight and VR both (mostly VR) and yes, average between $18.00 and $20.00 per hour for 8 hour day.

Yes new to this particular program... - gitarMT

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I worked for WMX when they first started VR and lost about 200 dollars a month consistently for about 6 months so finally had to leave there. Their program was excellent though in my opinion. Just didn't want to pay, which is now the norm for almost every company it seems.

Do you bounce between regular and VR say for every other report, and if so how do you gain any momentum?

The majority of mine is VR but - Questions

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also have the straight and although I like the VR loads better, I do both VR and straight as fast as I can go. Guess I have the drive as soon as time to go to work. What do you mean by they didnâ��t want to pay, you mean per line or the company not wanting to pay their employees?

Answer - gitarMT

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- "didn't want to pay" as in we are now making lower wages guided by overseas, rather than a normal progression of making more money at a job for longevity/experience, etc, etc. Using VR is a way to lower pay in my opinion because I don't really see production going up for the majority of average MTs. Rather than making 12 cents/line I made some 16 years ago, average seems to be around 6, 7, and even far less for VR.

Kind of ridiculous when you think about it. Rather, we should be at probably 18 to 20 cents/line by now.

My only hope is eventually the overseas MTs are going to start to demand more money and if they did they would be very close with now to making MORE than we do. Too funny...

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