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Is anyone happy with their employee position? - MT

Posted: Jul 24, 2012

I have been working as an MT for 6 months now. I love the work. I prefer speech recognition, but I need more PTO than my current company offers (just 1 week after 1 year). I need an employee position for health insurance. Do you work as an employee and would you recommend your company, or do you know which companies are best for employee positions? I appreciate your thoughts. I haven't run across any posts where it talks about benefits. Perhaps it is taboo and cannot be listed. Anyway, I appreciate your time and look forward to a positive response. Thank you.

Possibly . . . - anon

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Nuance offers 40 hours of PTO your first year and then 80 hours PTO for full time after your first year. They have health ins and other stuff that I don't need or use.

However, I think you need 1 year of experience to get on with them.

You asked specifically about benefits, so I will not share my opinion on anything else to do with Nuance.

Thanks, but... - MT

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I am looking for more than just 1 week the first year. That is not much time off considering no sick days and no holidays off.

After the first year it is 80 hours, which is 2 weeks. - anon

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You start to acrue PTO immediately and can use it after 90 days. After your first 365 you start to acrue at double the rate for a total of 80 hours that year.

I have NEVER run across a company that offered more than 40 your first year. NM - anon

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The VA . . . 4 hrs per pay period plus - Very Happy

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4 hrs annual leave per 2-week pay period plus all federal holidays (even if they occur on a weekend), as well as 4 hrs sick leave per pay period. Annual leave increases to 6 then 8 over time.

The real question/problem . . . - anon

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is the OP states she has been working for only 6 months as an MT and getting a sweet job like that with less than a year of experience, I imagine, would be extremely challenging. Most places won't even hire you with less than 1 year experience and I can only guess a company with incredible benefits gets swammped with MTs who have multiple years of experience.

In addition, I am guessing the jobs with this kind of benefit are not exactly easy to find or to get in our current market, regardless of skill level.

Impossible and never are the wrong words I suppose, extremely difficult, however, is probably pretty close to the mark.

Just checked VA job website - anon

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and I don't see any job openings for MT in the entire USA.

I thought they outsourced their medical transcription.

Not all of it - They keep some in-house

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I work for an MTSO and transcribe overflow for a VA account. They definitely have in-house MTs at some facilities.

What did you look under? - Try medical record technician

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There ARE MT positions, just perhaps none are empty right now. A lot of the dictation is contracted out but not all of it.

Not sure what you looked for. It might not be called medical trascriptionist or even include those exact words. I can't remember how I have seen them, but I have seen them.

Try looking for "medical record technician."

Nuance - pookbina

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I sure never experienced that with Nuance, 40 hours the first year. Unless things have really changed. I had to fight to get any time off, and it accrued very, very slowly.

Not advocating for Nuance, however, ... - anon

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You earn 40 hours PTO during your first year. Personally, I have had no trouble using it, guess it depends on your TL. You can also take 40 hours of unpaid leave a year.

Beginning your second year you DO start to accrue up to 80 hours through year 3. I am accruing a little over 3 hours a pay period at this point.

Like I said, I am hardly advocating the greatness of Nuance, but I have absolutely had way worse when it comes to PTO.

The best I have ever had was in-house hospital benefits, but we all know those jobs are almost impossible to get and are disappearing at a rapid rate and probably EXTREMELY unlikely to hire someone with 6 months experience, as OP states she has.

I have been an MT for 17 years. . . - anon

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and in 17 years I have not encountered a company that offered more than 40 hours your first year. In fact, a lot of them don't even offer that. Most of them only offer 40 hours the first few years even.

In-house positions have much better time off benefits, if that is an option for you but of course those jobs are usually highly competitive.

It's not unheard of...my company does - CB

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I've been with them a little over a year, and received 10 days at MxSecure (accrued semimonthly)in addition to paid sick days and holidays. Benefits include short and long-term disability, health, and optional dental and eye. Unfortunately, I don't believe they hire very often, and they require experience of at least 5-10 years minimum IIRC.

employee vs IC - OHMT

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My first MT job gave me 3 days off for the first year....that was sick time and vacation time combined. So I wouldn't gripe about only getting 40 hours. It's called paying your dues.

As far as health insurance, you don't need to be an employee to get health insurance. Why be beholden to a company for their insurance? Then if you change jobs, so does your insurance. You have no control. Several years ago I joined an association (membership dues $5 a year) in order to take advantage of their group health plan, and got a good deal. Last year I had an employee position and the health insurance they offered was more expensive than what I was already paying, so I'm glad I had my own coverage.

As an IC, you have a little more flexibility on your time off. You just need to let them know when you won't be available. But if you plan on taking a lot of vacations, you might be considered unreliable, so keep that in mind.

Employee status is better, though, from a tax standpoint. Check out the posts below for info on that. You would have to put aside 20-25% of your pay to cover all your taxes. Every payday I calculate 25% and move it to a separate account. That way I don't have to worry about coming up short when it's due.

Good luck in your new career. I hope you find a place that makes you happy.

I agree with 100% about paying your dues. - anon

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When I started out many, many moons ago PTO was little and sick time, holiday time was nil. That has always been the trade-off in this biz. The nature of the biz is working weekends, nights, holidays, all of that fun stuff with terrible benefits as a rule.

If you want all the bells and whistiles you USUALLY need to work in-house. Even after being an MT for 5 years the only in-house position I could get was an evening shift. But, again, it was all about paying those dues and eventually I got a M-F gig with good benefits (in-house of course).

I am slightly surprised someone who has been an MT for 6 months has a job good enough to get 40 hours the first year.

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