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just wondering what you make per hour, based on a 40-hour week...sm - justme

Posted: Jul 26, 2013

I know none of us get paid by the hour, but I was just wondering if any of you have ever figured out just how much you earn per hour, based on a 40-hour week. I'm just trying to figure out where I fit in. I seem to be earning $16-18/hour give or take based on how my week goes.

I am about the same (nm) - x

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About 20 to 22 an hour - Depending on my focus

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Some days I can knock it out of the park and get around $25-27 an hour but that seems to be few and far between these days. Most of the time, I average around $20-22, 40-hour work week, MTSO not my own accounts and not in-house.

Anywhere from $17 to 22 - SM

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I can easily hit $20-22 on my primary account, but I have some secondary accounts that I only average $12 per hour, so it really knocks down my pay if I have a lot of their work to do. I also have 3 docs that I can earn $28-30 with, but unfortunately don't get a lot of their work.

Around $10-12 an hour, 95%+ VR at 4.25/7.25 cpl. - nm

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earnings - takehome

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My TAKE HOME per paycheck is $10-11 an hour. Hardly a living, so I am going to look into getting my deceased husband's social security now that I am 60

scroll down to HUGE thread about this very same exact thing. - again? really? NM

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Thank you, I was about to say that too. This topic seems to keep recurring - ...

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apparently mainly for the purpose of humble bragging.

Thanks for the replies. Sorry I missed an apparently recent thread on the same. Excuse me...I'm - justme

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yes, you are just supposed to be doing - your own research

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READING is a big part of research. Good luck with that (and with getting other people to help you when your attitude needs adjusting).

Look at everyone on their high horse! Her question - was a bit more specific than below.

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Look out everyone, here come the post duplication Nazis.

and what donkey did you ride in on? Tthere's no Nazis here - no name calling here. Not necessary. s/m

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The way you said that took away from your whole point and now it's about you. Have a nice life.

Neither is the tut-tutting bandwagon necessary just - because some deem the post theme repetitive.

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This is not the word help board where you are expected to research a term before asking for help. On this type of issue, I don't see what the big crime was, just trying to gather more data from different people. Even if a similar question has been asked before, once a few days go by, people tend to not contribute any more to a particular thread. I don't understand why 3 different people felt the need to jump down the OP's throat on this.

I took it more as a look before you leap to spare her - some trouble, etc. Just common sense, no biggie.

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MY attitude needs adjusting? - justme

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Wow.

My pay works out to about $5 per hour. - MTBankAccount

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WHAT!!!??? - ME

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How does anyone make over 8 dollars an hour!!! Where do you all work!! I made maybe 6 dollars an hour average working at Nuance. Never any work, never was aloud to make up time because "then you're going into other shifts". I never got a break after 2010. Before that I made really good money. Please help with some advise. thank you

What?? Right - anon

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I don't know how anybody is making 20 bucks an hour. Not saying it's not possible, just surprises the crap out of me.

I can rarely make more than 10 on a good day anymore. I keep getting new accounts, the really tough ones, or the EMR accounts where reports are less than 5 lines. It's nice getting more and more accounts so I'm not out of work, but the constant switcheroo keeps my pay low, low, low.

I answered above at $16-18. I work at M*Modal... - x

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I work for M*Modal at 5 cpl for VR and 9 cpl for straight. I average 200 lines an hour on straight typing accounts. I know those are rare and I'm grateful. I have had NJA, but not often, and lately we've had plenty of work.

Up until 2010, I was actually making $25-30 an hour with VR for a small company I loved (6 cpl, 7 on weekends, great platform with minimal editing, imported demographics, and automatic formatting, no QA or silly BOS 'rules', headers and footers counted, no crazy account specifics, make your minimum lines on your own schedule, 5 weeks paid vacation, 3 paid holidays off). Everyone was happy, we had excellent quality, and the company was successful until...

They lost the account we had known for 20+ years (500 doctors + other dictators) to a bidding offshoring company paying 4 cpl to their US employees and of course less to their Indian counterparts. Doctors fought to keep us and our quality, but you know how it goes. Administration just cares about cheap. The owner told them she refused to cut our pay to 4, but knowing what I do now and the environment of MTSOs regarding working every holiday, punching time clocks, QA, time-consuming unpaid demographics, etc., I think we all would have taken the pay cut. She ended up retiring.

I am $17-22 above. - sm

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I have worked for many of the larger MT companies and have never made more than $12/hour at any of them, usually made around $8-10 on an average day. It was frustrating! I, however, kept applying to different companies until I found an account I could succeed with.

I now work at a very small MTSO making 8 cpl as an IC (real IC, work when and how much I like, no line requirements or schedules). For me, it is the account I work on that allows me to make a decent wage, not the company. I do other accounts with this company and am lucky to break $12/hour. My primary account though I have been on for over 5 years and am very familiar with it, often knowing what the docs are going to say before they say it. They are very repetitive. I also only have about 15 docs on my primary account, so I know each one very well and have been able to create customized templates for each one to include their regular phrases and their complete PE and ROS, which typically stay the same. I just have to insert the vitals. I am also paid for everything on the report, which most companies don't pay for, including headers and footers on each page. We also don't use a platform. Everything is transcribed directly in Word, which I prefer. I find most platforms to be very MT unfriendly and they just slow you down. By transcibing in Word, I can use my own templates and macros, which I love.

I did go through about 20 companies though to find one I actually liked. If you aren't making money at your current company, keep looking. There are still some decent MT jobs out there.

a little more on my work situation...sm - justme

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I work at home as an employee of a large hospital system. It's all straight typing with the help of AutoText and AutoCorrect. I am one of maybe 85 MTs, all one of 3 levels. I am a top-level MT and transcribe any and all reports. I never know who my dictator will be or what kind of report is coming to me. At least half of my dictators are ESL. I've been an MT for about 30 years, starting very young with on-the-job training. I'm paid on production only for the last few years. And, I still LOVE my job!

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