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Pay raises - Beverly
Posted: Mar 25, 2015
I have a question for all you MTs out there. I have been with the same company for 8 years now and am still making the same cpl as I was when I was hired. Is this the norm? I would think a raise should be in order at some point. I am very reliable, always make production or over production, very accurate. Just kinda feeling unloved! LOL!
Sadly, yes, it is the norm - Unfortunately, some of us
[ In Reply To ..]who have done this for a long time not only don't get pay raises but have had our pay cut by 40%. Sad fact.
Pay - SadMT
[ In Reply To ..]Count me in as one who is making LESS than when I started. Not only when I started with the company, but when I started in the industry initially 22 years ago. :( It is very discouraging.
Making less here too - Working for the big N
[ In Reply To ..]I used to make $900 a week, had my own local accounts and worked part time on a flexible schedule. That was the best part of my job, the flexibility. That is why I worked from home. Then went to work for a small company which was bought by a larger company which was bought by another company which was bought by the big, ugly N. Now, working more hours and no flexibility (except for the fact that I run OOW constantly and have to make hours up), being hounded with emails, demands, metrics, QC, QA, Fiesa, WebClock, Spark IM, and making $250 a week.
I am not opposed to working hard and providing quality documentation...it is the rest of it that stinks. I feel like there is a camera on my computer and my every move is being recorded so I can be dinged on my paycheck later.
Pay - Beverly
[ In Reply To ..]I have been doing transcription for 17 years. The company I work for gave me a penny raise a few years ago and within 8 months or so they took it back, stating that they were losing money and then they upped production to 1360 an hour. So I am making the same money I did with the penny raise but have to work more to get it. SMH!!
Pay - Dotts
[ In Reply To ..]Beverly, you know what, we are all in the same boat as you paywise. They are never going to be fair with us. I have more or less been "bombarding" my Congresswoman on these issues to educate her to try to do something about it from a national level. I don't worry so much any more; I am semi-retired but did the at-home thing for some years (1998 to 2006 for the national companies) and never got a pay raise in that time. Got tired of that and went to a nearby town, got a job doing it at a hospital in 2006; started at $14 an hour and worked seven years before retiring; worked from home with THEIR equipment; leave pay was $20 an hour, WITH excellent benefits and I took a $20,000 check with me when I left. I retired one year early because our new HIMS director said she was not replacing any transcriptionist leaving by attrition or retirement and instead took on a national transcription who pay 7 cents a line; plus I hate voice recognition which more or less turned us into nothing less than "machines." So that's my two cents on this matter.
Pay cut - mom2huskies
[ In Reply To ..]When I worked in-house I was making 25 to 30 an hour at my peak, then my job was outsourced. I then worked for Spheris and was making about 12 an hour. Now I struggle to make 8-10 working for Mmodal. This job certainly is not what is used to be.
Sadly, that is the norm. - Sleepy
[ In Reply To ..]You can always ask for a raise or salary review and you may even get one but don't expect it to be huge...more along the lines of tenths or hundredths of a penny perhaps, but as piddly as it may be, if anything you can look at it as leverage when negotiating pay down the line.
I also got a pay cut years ago when they changed the way they counted a line. What everyone else says rings true...if you want to make more you have to either work harder or work smarter. When those 2 options are mastered and exhausted, well, that's all you can do I'm afraid.
That unloved feeling is sadly universal in this industry.
Same boat - LiMT
[ In Reply To ..]Same here. I've been with my company for 9 years. I hit their max base pay one year into my hire and that's as high as it's ever going to go until I quit. It pays better than the big bad MTSOs that are criminally underpaying extensively experienced MTs, so I'm thankful I still even have this gig, but still - X per line in 2015 doesn't go as far as X per line did in 2006.
I had 3 paycuts with MTSO who advertises here. - see msg.
[ In Reply To ..]The price per report was cut from $1.25/report to $1.00/report to $0.80/report. Price per line was cut from .10/line to .08/line. It has gotten far worse than when I started. You need more than one job to survive in this industry currently.
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