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line counts - anybody making any money doing this? - Rose

Posted: Oct 19, 2009

I have been doing about half and half, VR and straight transcription for the past three months - is anybody making any money doing this? My line rate, of course, is half of my regular transcription rate (like that is fair, right?). I am using all the keyboard shortcuts that I can find and have created some macros, but the bottom line is still that some reports really are bad and even with picking up the speed to 40%, I am just not making any money! Just venting, I guess. I was doing 1200 lines a day straight transcription, starting in the morning and finishing by 2:00 or so in the afternoon, with breaks every 300 lines or so. Now I am working from 6:00 a.m., sometimes until as late as 5:00 p.m. and barely breaking $60 for the day - that computes to about $8.00 an hour. Not what I'm used to getting, I'm afraid.

I think at first it is difficult, but it did get better for me - First post on new format

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a little bit, but where I work, not all the accounts are the same. Some VR reports are great with very little to change, while others are horrible and you change/edit every couple of words, all the formatting is wrong, etc... Saying that, at least with my company, some VR is worth half your regular pay, but some should be paid more than your regular pay - LOL

Vring - VR lover

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You can make money on VR BUT you have to have a good platform. I post here ofen stating just that. I do both like you but the majority of mine is VR. I can average at least 18-20 dollars an hour and that is not a bad salary with only making 4 cpl with that. You can have all the macros, etc. that you want or think you need but again it comes back to what system you are working on. I never use special keys, I turn my speed up the majority of the time on full speed ahead, use my mouse and I might could do more lines per day IF I were able to speed up my audio more but on my platform just wont do it. I only work 8 hrs per day, no 10 or more hrs like I see some here. I do not take breaks, eat dinner at my desk. I used to straight type 2000 and over lines per day but might have doubled my VR or combo lines 2-2 times since doing this but I never do twice my average on every day. I would say this and have said this, your pay will never go up as long as your system is bad and by bad I mean correcting complete lines, retyping lines that are left out, retying anything more than perhaps a couple of words at the most. Instead of complaining about Vr, I just wish more people would understand what the issues are. Oh, another thing all physicians at my particular hospital are on VR, the good, the bad and the ugly and so many ESLs, OMG but Escription is a jewel with them. I see some postings where it says certain doctors not allowed on because VR is unable to do. That just does not fly with our system.

VR line counts - 7DayMT

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I have been using Escription 6 months. I would say I usually make 12-18 dollars an hour, or 300-550 lines an hour -on a good day maybe $130 for the 8 hours. I do think I did better with straight transcription (20 dollars an hour, approximately). But Escription is better than the other VR programs I have used (on which I could not pay the bills). I work more than 1 job and more than 8 hours a day, but that's because I need to - lots of expenses.

I do 90% VR on Escription.

EsScription does do a good job with ESLs. Don't know why it does a better job with one doctor than another.. some reports are still very choppy and need lots of corrections.

I don't use the mouse or foot pedal, just the keys. Some people like to use the mouse - whatever works for you.

Getting alot of hope today just reading posts - mt2020

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Escription, huh? Okay. I will definitely look for that one. I know I need to learn it. It can't be all bad with less keystrokes. My wrists are tired too. I work for MQ and my secondary already went VR, now my primary will to in Jan. I gotta push to learn at least. If they let me go, atleast I can go somewhere else with some knowledge. Sigh. I guess I've been fighthing change. And change comes. On to new adventures, I just hope I can still work at home. I keep thinking this will have so many of us out of jobs. I mean, think about it. You don't need as many MTs. So some of us, will end up looking for jobs. But thanks for the hope.

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