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Pay Complaints? - Ginger

Posted: Oct 12, 2011

How are people only making minimum wage. I am an MT/MME/QA and between all three different pay ranges for each one I average 16-17$/hour, even when I do not have my most familiar accounts.

pay - ginger

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i mean 16-17$ per hour total for doing all three together

good for you - what is your line rate

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and also what accounts? I have all but 1 that are crap accounts, all 15 of them. Maybe you make 2 cpl more than me? Maybe that pushes you up there, close to double what I make.

Take QA out of the equation, then - Adios

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calculate your hourly average.

hourly rate - ginger

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Tomorrow I will post my hourly average and give you all the details so you can figure it out as well.

Ginger - Adios

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Sorry for being persistent on this point, but I am on the same account, have always gotten good audits, and am making myself crazy trying to figure out why my hourly average has dropped over 50% in the last few years.

I work hard, have been around a long time and obviously got the production before. By the time you get one of my reports in QA I have over-thought it, which is probably one of the places my production falls, trying too hard.

I have been called on to help in times past with QA so I know it's not my ability.

I am good at what I do too, like one of the other posters said, yet my average hourly has dropped beyond all reason.

What am I missing that you are not. Same account, same rate of pay, difference is I don't QA. I have been with MQ over 15 years. Always been a strong performer. Makes on sense to me there would be that big a gap.

I am missing something here. Big time. But I am a survivor. Refuse to shed one more tear.

I have found venting helps when I really start getting really down.

Guess it started a fire storm of debate here when I vented yesterday and used actual numbers. But I really want to compare apples with apples and figure this out.

I don't think too many on here are going to understand - Kiki

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As many are not even making $16-17 an hour NOW. You are saying your pay has dropped by 50% so you obviously were making in the mid to high 20's per hour?

While it's still a pay drop for you, others who are barely scraping by and might be getting minimum wage can't really feel bad for you.

I know this because I'm kind of in the same boat. Used to make around average 20 an hour and now lucky to do 15 an hour. Still seems decent but not when it IS a drop and I live in CA. Although where you live has no bearing on the pay, even 20/hr here is NOT enough to live on sadly. So now I'm trying to live on 15/hr, and even that is slowly and steadily dropping.

I do believe we all are doomed in this career sooner rather than later.

Please don't shed any tears...it's NOT you...it's NOT your skills. It's the fact that companies are off-shoring our work to other countries coupled with doctors starting to do their own transcription (willingly or not willingly).

It's like we are fighting an uphill battle. No matter how hard we try to stay viable in this career, seems like we are getting defeated every step of the way.

I want to work... - antigeekess

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...where the 2 of you do! I graduated an MT program from a junior college in 2009 with a 4.0 average, had a stellar letter of recommendation from the department head, and was hired a little under a year ago to do onsite transcription at a psych and substance abuse facility, where my hours recently have been cut. My externship, however, was online and did include multiple specialties from 5 different hospitals -- lots of surgeries.

Do I have a chance at making a decent living at this anytime soon? Who might hire me based on that and a great test performance? What do the 2 of you think? Been discouraged so far. Thanks!

good luck - your competing against

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People who have 10-20 years experience doing acute care work. Jobs are slim. Have you applied for any positions and taken the required tests? That will tell you if you are able to be hired.

A decent living... that is not heard of anymore.

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