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Canadian Nuance MT - Erica

Posted: Sep 25, 2014

Hello,

I know this is an American forum however I'm hard pressed to find something similar for Canada. Are any active posters working for Nuance from Canada?

canada - me

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I'm not from Canada, just wanted to say "welcome".

Canadian Nuance MT - Erica

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Thanks! I recently started working for Nuance but it sounds like their Canadian branch is much different than state side. I love it so far, it's just alienating not having any co-workers.

Isn't your minimum wage much higher - Wage disparities

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I didn't know Nuance had a Canadian branch. Are you typing American notes or Canadian ones? And are you working for production? If so, I'd be curious to see if it's comparable to what the American MT's make. I was always under the impression that Canada had a higher minimum wage, so if your pay isn't higher, is your minimum production through the roof?

Sorry to bombard with questions.

Min. Wage - Erica

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I don't mind the questions at all, I don't know anyone that does MT locally so it's just nice to have a common ground, like I said, I find it quite alienating.

Minimum wage where I am locally is $10.40 and about to go up, but Nuance is paying me by the audio minute, $1.15/min for straight transcription and $0.575/min for VR editing. It's not great, but it's livable and it's worth it to be home with no set schedule.

The head quarters here is in Ontario, Canada and I transcribe for a Canadian hospital in the same province but I know they have a ton of others contracted to them, I think mostly Canadian.

My minimum production is 300 transcribed minutes/week, which is considered to be just less than part time, I went with that contract until I'm in a position to quit my other job, then I will be going full time which I think is 700 transcribed minutes/week.

Is it much different for an American MT?

A couple differences. sm - Weekender.

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Speaking only for myself and the few MTs I know, we are paid for lines transcribed/edited, and we all have set schedules. The minimum is 7440 lines per week on my platform. Not sure if it is different on other platforms.

Paid by the line - Not by the digital minute

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We are paid per 65-character line (with spaces) and generally at 8 CPL for straight transcription and 4 CPL for edit for clinic work, and 9 and 4.5 for acute care. There are shift differentials and "incentives" and such. Like Weekender said, most of us are required to do 7440 lines per week, at 40 hours, so 186 lines per hour.

I was paid digital minutes before this job, but at $2 US. Your $1.15 Canadian right now is just over $1.00 US (I think it's $1.03), so less than half. Wow. But I also had a 60 digital minute minimum for straight typing.

I always thought that 8/4 and 9/4.5 cpl was low, but now comparing what they pay in Canada per digital minute, that's insane! Granted, I'd make a LOT more (looking at the last couple days, I'd have made close to double what I'm making being paid per line, even at the Canadian wage), but still, Ontario is not a cheap place to live.

Of course, our Indian brothers and sisters are making closer to $2 an hour and work from a warehouse-type facility. But they're not typing Indian notes (well, they might be typing some Indian-American doctors, but US-based patients) they're typing US notes.

This is all very interesting.

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