I have been a MT for four years and I make $1800.00 per month. I am happy with my pay at this
Posted By: Amy on 2005-11-02
In Reply to: Doesn't matter how many companies you work for. I'd like to know how you manage to do this??? - sm
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Make sure you ask what the required lines per day is. Could be 1200-1800 or higher. nm
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Hunred bucks says it's TT - exactly why I left after a month. Happy now.
I make around 4,000 a month, but
I work Sunday-Thursday. I have 2 of my own clients and I also am gone from the house 2 days a week for a few hours for deliveries. I work basically when I want. If I want more, then I take more from the true IC online job that I have where there are no set hours, quotas to meet, or line count requirements (TRUE IC). 
Oh, she does make $4000 a month.....sm
what she DOESN'T tell you is that it's not from editing. She gets a lump sum for doing other things in addition to editing.
Yeah, they gotta make that $40/month!!
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I make around $4000 a month..but it's not worth it.
I work 2 jobs 7 days a week, sometimes up to 15 hours a day. Can you say burn out.. I knew you could.
I just left there last month after 2 years -
I had been really happy with my job until about last November. I finally even applied for and received unemployment. Not only was my line count down from 20,000 a pay period to sometimes 7000-8000, but that also meant my line rate of pay was down because of their tiered schedule. It did not seem to matter how much I asked or complained about the work and begged for more, there was always an excuse.
I make about $1,500 a month working about 20 hours per week.
Believe me, I'm not bragging or slamming anybody at all. No way. I'm frustrated with my own income because I'd like to make more. I'm willing to put in more hours to do it, too. Honestly, I'm not that fast. I have one very small local account and one small MTSO I subcontract for. None of it is verbatim, it's clean up the grammar as you go, which totally slows me down.
I won't work for a national any more because I couldn't make enough money there. I wasn't willing to tough it out for three months until I could make their line counts, especially when they had me on their worst accounts, pools of hundreds of dictators per hospital so I couldn't use my expander, and a new account every week.
I've said before that if I'm going to do MT, it's going to be on my terms. I won't chain myself to a desk or be "on call" all day long waiting for work to come in. Nationals don't pay you to sit there and wait for work. That's bull. Being on call IS working. Other businesses pay their "on call" people at least minimum wage. They skirt around the issue trying to use SE and IC terminology, but it's just a way of paying us less to be at their beck and call.
Don't give up on MT entirely. You'll find your fit. It just takes some searching.
Been here about a month, but worked for them 3 years ago and never should have left.
I left the first time cuz DH (now my EX-DH) was less then cooperative to say the least.
I LOVE it here.
About 1-1/2 years ago, I paid almost $600/month for COBRA. sm
That was for medical, dental, vision, one person. Hope this helps. It is tremendously expensive, but it does get you by until you get something else.
Good luck! 
I make 1300 per month 10 hours per week (IC) extra job
I cannot say enough good things about Keystroke, not just one month but years
I remember when they were having growing pains and I was with another company and saw them on this board. Lee even got on to defend her company. At least she cared and nothing but good things have happened to this company. She still cares. Recently complaints were of running out of work and needing secondaries, and high insurance. She contacted all MTs and has been working on and from what I understand is correcting all that. She is a hands on owner and appears to deeply care for the Transcriptionist even though she cannot see our faces.
All of my posting is from hands on experiences and if for 2 years I can say this is where I want to retire after all the other companies I have had to go through, I am only trying to help and not post pie in the sky hoopla to rope anyone in. This is a down to earth, straight shooting company that I am sure is in it for profit but deeply cares for the transcriptionists who work for her and not make that profit while we eat 69 cent pot pies because our pay checks are so crummy. it takes time even for a good transcriptionists to get familiar with a new account but if the dictation is fairly distributed (I mean first in, first out, unless other arrangements are made between you and the company) then there is hope and a chance to make a living. I don't think it is fair to complete with your team leaders for dictation because they will always win and you will be left with what they do not want as they have dictation goals too with some nationals along with supposedly helping you. That is my 2 cents.
My account went to India, have been struggling to make any money for the last month, crappy work. nm
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I make 9.5 cpl at Keystrokes and am very happy
I started at 9, and now at 9.5. I make excellent money there for less than 10 cpl because there is always tons of work.
I'm happy with what I make. I still make more than if I went anywhere else and hardly noone in th
biz gives raises so I feel blessed that I make a lot more than most, raise or no raise.
Very happy with SL MQ for years now...
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Happy for 3 years
The company has been good for me. All archives are from 2004. All companies have some disgruntle posting. Check it out and make your own decision.
For MQ many years, now with WMX, very happy.
Course, after the misery of MQ, this feels like heaven! No complaints so far -- been there since April. IMHO, this company fits me to a T.
I am very happy there for about 2 years
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I have been there for nearly 3 years, very happy.
They are nothing but honest with their employees, if that is really what you are looking for. I don't know anything about the offshoring mentioned in another post...they experimented with it early last year (notified employees up front that they were, it was no secret) but I never heard how it went. They recently had a layoff due to low work levels, could not keep everyone busy. Work is picking back up now. I will warn you that the quality standards are very high. Good luck in your job search!
I have been there over 4 years and I am still happy. nm
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I do. I hope you find something to make you happy and
that is something you can depend on. Whether in this business or not. I wish that for us all!
I wasn't complaining. I am quite happy with what I make.
My point was that experience in this field means nothing as previous poster thinks it should, and you have just argued the point beautiful.
I personally could care less what others make. I am happy with my wage and that is what is important to me.
Where are the VERY experienced MTs (20+ years) happy?
I have 25 years of acute care experience. I have worked in house for a hospital, I have been an MTSO, I have had my own accounts with and without subcontractors, mostly acute care but some clinic.
I am thinking it may be best to switch to clinic rather than acute care. But where is it possible to make at least somewhere approaching what I could with my own accounts? Any ideas?
Maybe I just need to go out and find my own accounts again. I thought working for someone else would work out okay, but I'm not making enough money and when there's no work I sure can't make any. 
What we know most is that Wilma has been there 2 years and is happy.
Her insurance is also $17 a week too.. LOL I'm sorry but it is kind of funny. I guess you have to love the enthusiasm or wonder if this is mgt pumping up the company. I'm sure two years from now Wilma will still be happy at Medware; it must be the greatest job on earth. Maybe I should apply
Three + years at Transtech and still happy
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I've been happy for the past 2 years
No problems at all for me, and only getting better now with our annual raise (I know it's small, but it is something), holiday pay, more PTO, etc.
Very happy at TransHealth. Been there a couple of years. nm
You can't eat out, yet you are happy with a job that takes 5 years to learn, and couldn't pay
Sounds like a great job to me. Downsizing our minds too. I will be these companies are hooting and hollerging in their second homes, vacations, which we rarely get and still sleep soundly at night. Something is very wrong with this picture.
I have been there 4 years and there are many happy MTs. Call the office, not the sour grapes on thi
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I left them over 4 years ago. Best thing I ever did. Moved to Webmedx. Quite happy. nm
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I left after nine years in June before the pay cut and I am very happy in my new position and making
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Yes 25 years exp. and I make
I have 30 years, and that is what I make too, but at sm
20,001 lines you get 1 cpl more for all lines. If you consider all of the benefits, nowadays that is not a bad wage, I guess. Of course, I always think I am worth more.
I have 30 years in and don't make $25K. Hands sm
have taken a beating over the years. The best I ever did was when I was an IC and worked a minimum of 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, 4 hours on Sunday. No social life. No life but MT, really. That was when Clinton was President, all MT work was kept in the USA (tough keeping up with the demand then!), and MT pay was tops.
Nowadays, an MT cannot count on a regular income. So many pitfalls--company buyouts, sellouts, offshoring, lousy technical quality, docs dictating on cellphones, etc.
Wow - it would take me 6 years to make $125K !
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I make that too, have not had a raise in 12 years though.
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Why should I go back to making 9 cpl when I make 11 cpl now?? I made 8 cpl over 12 years ago.
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You too? I was always a 1800-2000 SM
line producer daily until I worked for them. 1200 and it was taking me 9-10 hours to get those 1200 lines. Something is wrong with their line counting.
I usually get 1800 to 2000
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Gee, if you didn't do 1800, someone else could
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1800 lines a day is not much when making
That is exactly why I left Transcend. They try to make it look like people can make double what they did straight typing, but it's a crock. Lots of new people were hired at 10 cpl, but you don't earn 10 cpl for editing on BeyondTxt. Calculate what your earnings would be with the rate reduction at 2000 lines per day, which when I left was 55% of normal line rate with no incentive, and calculate what your earnings would be at 1700+ lines a day at 0.085 cpl, but don't forget the incentive rate, which at 1701 lines would have been 0.0075 cpl. Which way is actually making more money?
I've heard that the current rate for editing is 60%, maybe it's gone up. I don't know, but even at 70% a person making 1700 lpd straight typing would have to produce 2210 lpd editing just to break even, and it still wouldn't even be breaking even because the person is still losing the incentive bonus. Transcend's pay restructure benefits Transcend because they no longer have to pay as many people the higher wages they did with straight typing. It still amazes me that so many can't see that. Even if the BT program was the best thing since sliced bread, which it is NOT because there are so many problems with it, there is no way to make more money with editing unless the person is a low to mediocre producer. If you normally produce anything more than 1200+ lpd, Transcend really isn't the company to make money with because there are so many other companies out there that pay much higher. It all depends on what you're looking for.
What are they asking for, 1500/1800 lines a day, or more? nm
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1800 lines so far and have 3 more hours to go in my shift.
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I know you need to type 1800 lines a day in order to get 11 cpl.
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I can cut it, I do over 1800 lines in 7 hrs. I think I am the great employee. nm
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My weekly paycheck was $1800 before taxes - IC work. sm
It can be done with own accounts working no more than 8 hours a day!
May I ask what account you are on and what work type you are doing to get 1800 in five hours?
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I average 1800-2000 lines a day on BeyondTXT.
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From a 5/06 post, 8 cpl up to 1800 lines a day!!! Then you'll get 8.5. Not for this turtle
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Monthly, I bring in $3500-4000, about $1800 every 2 weeks.
I work about 5-6 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Sometimes I work a little extra if I didn't get the line count I wanted that day due to dictators, etc. Consistently, I bring in this much as an IC. It hasn't always been this way, you need to get to know your accounts and then it will come. I have the same accounts and dictators every day working for a national.
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