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Same pay rate for edited & transcribed lines? - Bilboa

Posted: Jan 26, 2012

My employer has recently gone from straight transcription to VR (using MedQuist's DocQSpeech).

At this point, after 4 months on VR, production is up 11% overall. The employer says they believe it will go up 48% overall (60% for VR lines, no change of course for transcribed lines, 80% of lines VR).

At this point, indeed, at least 80% of lines are VR. (The quality of the VR output, however, is pretty bad.)

We're union, and I'm one of the MTs participating in the wage negotiations.

The employer is proposing to pay us the same line rate for edited and transcribed lines -- a lower rate, of course, than we used to get for edited lines.

Maybe I'm just suspicious-minded, but I have a "What are they up to that I'm not realizing?" feeling.

Anyone got an idea?

Thanks!

I wouldn't go less than 7 cpl, - sm

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I made 9 cents a line for years and had my pay cut to 8 for transcription. Some of these companies are cutting VR pay by half or less. If you meet in the middle - 9 to 7 for straight and if SR was paid at 4.5 cents to 7, then that would be in the middle. There are also companies out there hiring at 5 to 7 cpl right now for straight transcription. I don't know who is taking these jobs, but someone obviously is. I think the happy medium would be 7 cents per line because you're going to spend a lot of time on VR and those straight transcription jobs may be far and few between. JMO though. I think most people would be happy with VR if the pay rate was in line with what they have to do in each document. I have yet to get a file that didn't need a lot of editing before going out, so being paid 4.5 cents a line on a job I had to spend 15-20 minutes on is ridiculous. You also have to factor in all the formatting changes you have to do in a document because VR doesn't do that. Some of my files have the heading in all caps and some don't, so I spend a lot of time just making sure it is formatted right also. Good luck. Hope they come up with a line rate that is actually what VR is worth and not the one they think it should be because they think we're going to fly in and out of these reports with no problems.

Re: I wouldn't go less than 7 cpl, - sm - VTMT

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Eventually, soon, they are not going to need MTs at all. I think it's time you all start thinking about jumping ship and find a job that actually pays the bills. I did. Every year is something more they take away and more they pile on...I'm so done with this field of work.

I agree to a certain extent, but as long as I am making over - minimum wage, sm

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I'm not ready to jump ship yet. I am making in the 40s right now, which is a cut in my pay from the previous 2 years, but I can still pay my bills. If and when this job becomes obsolete and/or the pay is so bad I cannot make any money, then I will think about jumping ship. My life boat is in the water and still afloat. If it starts sinking, I will bail out. Thanks though.

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