How on earth do you make $35-$50 an hour?
Posted By: Inquiring mind on 2009-05-15
In Reply to: I honestly couldn't deal with the pay..... - MTAA
Would you mind telling how many lines a day you type and how much cpl you get paid? I just don't see how anyone can type that much that fast. Wow! I'm in awe! Have any tips for us slow pokes with attention problems?
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Yes, but who on earth would relocate for a $10-15 an hour job?
Will the hospital pay relocation expenses? It's not worth uprooting the entire family and losing my husband's job when transcription jobs are a dime a dozen.
think, people! If she does 250 lines/hour, same docs daily, will make $15/hour
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what's not to believe - I said that I charge $35/hour and work 10 hour days AND DO NOT MAKE - sm
I DO NOT MAKE $100,000/YEAR
try READING the post.
$20 an hour is not even average for radiology. You should not make less than $25-30 per hour. sm
I work for Keystrokes and have for 3 years. I average 25 reports an hour, which is $31.25 an hour. I have 401, health insurance, direct deposit, life insurance. My lead tells me I'm wonderful when I talk to her, but I do not need a daily pat on the back.
I also have a good friend who works for them on a clinic. She only makes 0.08 per line but does 300 lines an hour, which is $24 an hour, again higher than your $20.
I don't think we're selling ourselves short. There are companies out there that are good to work for, 6 or 8 of them that I know of personally. Don't settle for $20 an hour.
Really? Most MTs I know make between $20-30 per hour.
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I make $14 an hour as QA and looking
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Uh, you said you make 4 cpl, $20-something per hour.
At just $20 per hour, that's 4000 lines per day.
Also, many companies pay less than 4 cpl & many MTs are used to making more than $20/hr.... so even more lines. It's ridiculous.
HOW MUCH ON AVERAGE DO YOU MAKE AN HOUR?
WHAT IS THEIR AVERAGE PPL, ETC.
Figure out how much you make per hour now and
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I make much more than $17 an hour, more in the $30 range. sm
You sold yourself short. Did you pass their test?
Things that are good are sometimes worth waiting for. Why do you call it BS when you know nothing about the company other than you applied? Geesh. This must be Keystroke's week to be bashed. Who is next week?
I agree...I make anywhere between 25.00 and 28.00 an hour....
it is possible...but like the above poster said, you need to utilize Expanders and I have my own doctors also...no templates but having your own doctors helps...
I WISH I made $11.75/hour! Used to make more
This business makes no sense at all.
I make more than $28 an hour on average so
I am curious to hear about your union attempts but I will never join. I will be one of those taking up the jobs given up by those who attempt this.
You are entitled to spend your time, energy and money where you wish. I hope you don't come out of this attempt feeling defeated or hurt but I am afraid that will be the case.
So, for your sake I wish you well but I will not be a supporter of the union.
OK, all of you on VR who make $20 an hour, please post.
And please, not the same 1 person posting over and over again who is obviously MANAGEMENT. If you are truly making that much money doing VR, I would hate to see the quality of your work. Oh, wait, I probably already have. Looking up old reports, the quality I am seeing is... not that great, to put it mildly. Obvious, GLARING errors. VR: Good for MTSO. Not good for MT--or for PATIENT CARE, to put it mildly!
At my co, I would make $5 per hour LESS to be a lead vs. production pay. nm
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Im thinking by the hour and make it well worth your while. nm
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Agree. I would love to make $20 an hour
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Can acute care make $17 an hour?
Yes. With WMX, in December, straight typing, I was making $25.73 an hour. Started VR in January, now averaging $20.73. Sucks.
Unions in Canada, MTs make $23 hour plus Yep
I communicate with an MT in Canada and that is what she relayed.
Actually I didn't quote a figure that I make per hour....sm
(it is above $25/hour, however) but I will say this: if the MT field is one's chosen area, then investing in it is a must. That means, instead of calling others who state they make healthy per-hour wages liars, your time would be better spent in getting as much info as possible in how that was achieved - and learning from it as well as adopting whatever it takes to help YOU. It means spending more time learning and less time bashing. It means concentration on retention of info, both old and new, to further your knowledge. It means learning what works best for you - not the next MT or whomever has posted on this board. It means taking feedback, again, without whining about it. I know of no other field where criticism isn't an essential factor - again, use it *positively* and don't let it affect you negatively! It means being open to trying new specialties when asked - you never know until you try - maybe it's just what you needed! There is a whole host of other things that you can try, but TRYING them is the key. Nothing ventured, nothing gained - and gain IS, after all, what it's all about, isn't it?
Yeah, take home 70% for IC and make aprox $10.50/hour or .04cpl
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Keep puckering up, maybe someday you'll make that big $14 an hour. Best of luck to ya. nmsg
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why on earth would they even need to be QA'd?
Not knowing the OP, I would not presume to say whether or not he/she is one of the MTs referred to in my previous post but it might be a good idea to at least give her the benefit of the doubt ya think?
There is no way on this Earth
for a company that doesn't pay for spaces. g o m d t . c o m
Why on EARTH....
do you stay there if you are so unhappy? It really makes no sense at all. Maybe you are just a miserable person and nothing will please you. ?? I sure hope you leave Transcend and find a company that is a better fit for you. Good luck!
Why on earth would they want to do that?
It doesn't make sense. User friendliness makes more money for them not less. Maybe I don't understand what you mean. 
Why on earth would anyone
want to work there? I sure wouldn't.
Why on earth do they charge??
How much was the membership and what do you get in return? Just curious. I don't pay to belong to message boards, although I would consider if I got something great in return! 
The Day the Earth Stood Still sm
Patricia Neal had to repeat that to Michael Rennie's robot to stop it from destroying the earth.
What on earth is heresay?
Is it some kind of amalgam of hearsay and heresy? :)
Why on earth would you call it annoying?!
I'd call it being tenacious and knowing exactly and getting exactly what you want. I'd go full on balls-to-the-wall! Are you a mouse or an MT?!
 (This is so not right, but it's the only warrior image I could find!)
No thanks TTS is the last place on earth I would work
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Why on earth not? People in absolutely every other
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Yeah, I'm going to miss J. Very down-to-earth
Philly might just as well be in another galaxy.
So what on earth are we supposed to do for a living then?
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You betcha - worst schedule on earth it seems.
I've been working weekends for 10 years and seven days a week for 3 years. I'm about ready just to tell the office I'm not doing it anymore - I did my time. If they want to fire me, fine. It's totally ridiculous to be horsewhipped this way. No other profession on earth is forced to work 24/7 the way we are with no days off, no vacation time, nothing ever! - even doctors and nurses get SOME time off, or rotate weekends so they can have some kind of a life. Sheez, even indentured servants and house help in Medieval Europe got one day off every two weeks! SOMETHING to look forward to - some kind of a rest!
So yeah, your message really hit a nerve today:) Believe me, you are not alone. When the heck are we going to organize and stop letting ourselves be bullied by these slavedrivers?
okay give it up people OSI is not the only place on earth
:-(
If D&L does not pay their MTs why on earth are they allowed to post here continually?
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it's hip to be green these days, save the earth, etc. nm
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Wouldn't work for them if they were the last company on earth.
Go to their web wite, read the second paragraph. It says:
Creating a new way of getting IT done. Faster, cheaper – and yes, even better.
That tells you what they think of American MTs. Why would any American MT work for them?
100,000/year - no way. I charge $35/hour and work 10 hour days - sm
AND I DO NOT CLEAR $100,000/YEAR.
SS is the abolute worst company on the face of the earth.
The sound quality of their files is horrendous, their dictators are mostly ESL and the absolute worst ESLs I've ever done and I do ESL all the time and am very good at them usually. I found their platform very time consuming, tech support wasn't very good, QA was an absolute joke. If you take this job you can forget the coffee, you'll need Valium. If you read through the achives there are many posts stating basically the same thing so it wasn't just me. There are even a couple of posts where people decided to take positions against the advice of many of us and they have come back and apologized that they lasted only a month or two and we were right, that it was the absolute worst company out there.
I don't know anything about the other company. I don't know if they are a new company or have changed names because I've only seen them mentioned on here a couple of times.
I don’t remember saying for anyone to find another kind of job, earth to gourdhead, oh
Poor MTs? I am taxpayer just like anyone else and I am not poor. BTW, will not make 50K as I do not work fulltime. I have taken up for the company before but, not anymore as people tend not to believe you and want to say you are management so people can think what they want and we will just keep it at that. Besides, don’t you have to get back to being a rah-rah cheerleader for all those poor MTs or is this the time for you to turn all nasty on them again like you just did, when yesterday or the day before? You remember, when people were asking you about how were you giving advice, being retired, getting husband's pension and the motorhome?
$35/hour x five 10-hour days = $1,750 gross/week.
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Well if I could do 500 lines per hour, I would be making 35.00 an hour. sm
nothing to sneeze at. More than fair for having a 2-year degree. Come on people, we are all acting like we expect 6-digit incomes! Whatev!
If that's $9.50 an hour, that would be just under 6.5 cpl at 150 lines an hour. nm
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Are there any QAs out there that are getting paid by the hour at 15+/hour? If so, where are you and
how are the work conditions/requirements/benefits,etc?
For example, I count every hour on the hour with my job
and while I was posting here and also checking email in between I averaged $22 an hour for 2 hours, not bad for someone who is a) slow or b) does not have a lot of time in transcription work; therefore making me a prime candidate for VR.
I doubt you will make enough money in 5 hours a week to make
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I make 4 cents a line, work part and make
over $500 a week on part.
Great post! I make 0.085 at Keystrokes and make more than at any sm
other company in the last 5 years. Why? Because there is always work for me. I love starting work each day, knowing that the company I work for appreciates me and has plenty of work. Transtech and Keystrokes sound very similar; those of us that work for either can count our blessings that we are not part of the cesspool or huge corporate mess that makes up the biggest few companies. We do not have to worry about our jobs getting sent overseas and we see a future in this business!!!
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