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Pay Per Audio Minute at 7 CPL? - Who wants to translate?

Posted: Jul 19, 2012

Experienced MTs needed for multiple accounts/specialties - CCT

Posted: Jul 19th, 2012 - 9:12 am

Experienced Medical Transcriptionists needed on several accounts (3 years of MT experience is required to apply for each of the below) -

Multispecialty account (orthopedics, gastroenterology, plastic surgery, internal medicine, oncology) - pay is per audio minute of dictation. Full time applicants only. Upon signing contract, please note it will take at least 5 business days to activate your login for this account (per the client). TAT is 4-6 hours. Voice files come in Monday-Friday early morning until late evening. This is the primary account we are in need of immediate assistance on.

Orthopedic clinic account - pay is 7 cpl. Part time or full time applicants - 24 hour TAT, allows for flexible schedule.

Direct deposit is available; biweekly pay.

US applicants only please. The above are Independent Contractor positions only.

We are looking for long-term committing MTs to join our team.

When emailing resumes/replies - please indicate in your email subject line which account you are applying for. This is required to be contacted for employment - thank you!

Respond to - michelle@clearchoicetranscription.com

Pay is 7 CPL (peanuts for IC) - nm

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Yup. Less than 6 cents a line. Terrible and probably a - misclassified position. nm

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there are several accounts here.... - anon

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the first one is a multispecialty account that pays per audio minute including ortho, gastro, plastic, etc.

the second account is ortho clinic which pays 7 cpl full or part time. with 24 hr tat.

the first account was 4-6 hours tat.

You should be ashamed of yourself - go away

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7 cpl is a poor wage for an employee, for an IC it's simply ridiculous. Until the MTSOs like yourself figure out you're going to get what you pay for and go back to paying a livable wage to MTs, I hope no one takes your job.

The only way we'll get the wages raised are to stop accepting the abuse.

I AM NOT AN MTSO... - anon

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I am an MT just like you! and I also feel 7 cpl is c**p wages. I was only trying to explain to the OP who did not seem to understand the ad. so go shame on someone else. obviously you can't read postings properly either.

pay per audio minute - FYI

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Basically, when they want to pay you by the minute of dictation they have a formula they follow. They estimate that on average each minute is so many lines. Does that make sense? I did this type of account before and it's pretty accurate. As far as 7 cpl, with the way things are going for transcriptionists, that's not really that bad. I don't think we'll ever see 10-13 cpl again in this industry. It's sad, but true!!

Why would anyone use an inaccurate formula.... - starzz

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when there is an exact formula out there? Anyone who has been in transcription for any length of time knows that depending on the dictator, a 2-minute dictation by a speed-talker can acctually be longer than a 10- minute dictation by a lollygagger. Happens all the time. It reminds me of a time long ago when everyone wanted to pay by the page and then the accounts would make the margins 0.5 x 0.5 and use small fonts, etc. to make it almost impossible to make minimum wage. We have an extremely accurate system for calculating lines...it's called a 65-character line WITH spaces, thank you very much!

Wow - MT

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Wow...and you all wonder why you can't get decent jobs? You can't even read a simple job ad. Thanks to the MT who "got it" just like I did the first time I read it.

7 cpl ror ortho is still bad - CTMT

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first they cut us from 10/11 cents to 9, then 8.5, then 8, now 7 cpl - its actually the MT's that take these positions who cause the rates to go down. If one MTSO sees another one getting away with it, then they will do it too.

Did you ever consider - sm

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That the MTSO's, especially smaller ones, have to reduce the cpl they charge to acquire a contract? Thanks mostly to VR.

BUT, as I recall, 7 cpl has been pretty standard for subcontracting for years.

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