I make $4000-5000 but NOT WORKING for a national
Posted By: athome on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: $$ per month - inquiring
I just couldn't even make $1800/month working for a national because they kept running out of work, or had me tied to a computer for 7 days a week, or I was getting up at 4 a.m. just to try to get some work before running out. I certainly would never work for MQ because I would have made less than $1800/month, but that's just me. I now do it independently, and I'm not bragging, but most of my months vary in the $4000/range. A couple have been less, and the most has been $7000/month. JUST NOT FOR A NATIONAL. NO WAY, NO HOW!
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4000-5000+ lines per day of correcting awful VR? No thanks.
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I make more than that working for large National, which SM
provides all equipment. I do not have to pay for long distance. I have benefits, paid time off, health insurance and a wonderful supervisor.
I am really glad you posted. I haven't felt this satisfied with my company for a long time. Now I know why I am still working for them.
And by the way, if you expect your MTs to paid 8 cpl and pay for their own LD, they must be starving and/or homeless.
$4000 a month for a national with a low line rate. nm
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I make 2-4000/mo cant be that bad.
Missing out on a great company. BUT if you all like working miserably without a flexible schedule to each his or her own.
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.
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.
Is it possible to make 35K/yr with a national?
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$2500 gross a month working for a national
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I make 9.25 cpl plus incent at a national. What
Curious, since you state you pay much more than the average nationals.
Keystrokes, if you can't make it there, I would not apply to any other national
this is just my opinion (and I am entitled to it). I have been with several nationals and I have found Keystrokes to be the most honest, not assigning bad dictation to new transcriptionists. Becky is a wonderful asset and bends over backwards on the front end to help. I have worked there twice (WILL NEVER LEAVE AGAIN)and had to find out the hard way it is a cold, cruel world with other nationals and their games. I have not found Keystrokes to play them, just get the work done and back to the hospitals and that is what I am paid to do.
Anyone happier working for a national versus local clinic or hospital? SM
I'm with a national but from time to time, openings come up with areas places. None are in my own town, but would be 30 to 45 minutes away from home. In the case of at least one of these places, you are required to work in-house just to get used to their system, which I understand, but they say it usually takes a year before being set free at home. Now I can understand that if you are a brand new MT, but as far as just getting used to how they do things, that seems excessive. If you meet the criteria sooner, you can go sooner. It worried me about the length of time. That would put me in a bind with little kids and being away from home on certain days after they got off the school bus.
On the flip side, they pay hourly so I might like that, rather than make next to nothing on some days where the dictators are horrible on my current account. On the other hand, on a good day the lines are worthwhile and I'd come out ahead by LPH rather than hourly rate.
So many things to think about...oh, and another biggie...with this local place I'd get health insurance free for myself (not the family, but I have the kids covered on a plan I'm already paying for myself, along with me on the plan, which I could then drop myself from).
Anybody worked both scenarios and decided the national really was better? I actually interviewed here a year ago but didn't have to decide because they offered it to somebody in-house so I never got an offer. I have 3 years of experience but I still worry I would take forever to meet the criteria to work from home. I guess there are a few that have been there over a year and haven't met it. I don't want that to be me.
I made that working for a national...O/T, weekends...no live, now no O/T or weekends(sm)
so no more big bucks, at least from them...looking for second job to make ends meet, don't have husband to help...this sucks.
Is it possible to make $$$ working
and not report?
I make more than that working there...
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Do what you think is best. I just left a major national, went to another national but after
6 weeks found it did not fit. Just happened to luck into another smaller national and things couldn't be better. There are other jobs out there.
Why make us hard working MTs have to .....sm
deal with that every day. I love this board and it is very unfortunate you do not have to register yourself here. I am sure you would not be posting all the garbage that you do. You would have to actually stand behind what you post.
what a joke, you could make more working as a cashier
at a grocery store for that amount. I tested for them to see if the work was as easy as they say and the sound quality was terrible. Definitely not worth it.
You'd make more money working at McDonalds. I have
20 years of experience in acute care, can do anything, including the most difficult ESL dictators. They offered me 6.5 cpl as an IC. After I stopped laughing I told them no thanks. They offered me this without any testing so it was not a reflection on my work. I may have gotten more after testing, but wasn't interested.
I make more working at home that I ever did on site
the most I made as an MT on site was 8 bucks an hour.
I make twice what I made working at a hospital.
And I even work for MedQuist, no less! 
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.
Umm..only if you think working longer to make same $ is a raise. Thanks for the offer.
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I make good money with them and love working there. sm
Here is why: I have one account with a backup account that I have only used twice and both times because they needed help not because my primary was slow. I do 1600+ lines in 8 hours. I started at 8 cpl and was raised to 9 cpl at 90 days. I have as much work as I want and while my PTO days are less than the last place I was for 8 years, I make more during the year. I literally made $17K more with KS last year than I did with MQ the year before. I am higher this year.
I love Chartscript. The account I am on is wonderful and yes, I use ShortHand with it.
Good to me? I made $61K last year with them and so far this year, I am at $56K, so I will pass that for sure.
No to paid holidays but if you work them, it is time and a half.
If my account needs extra help, they offer time and a half for weekends.
I would rather work for less per line and be able to do more lines than make more per line but struggle to get 1000 lines in a day.
There are nay-sayers for KS. They are strict on quality and expect everyone to work their schedule. Not all accounts are great, but that's anywhere. The only people I know who left were either let go for either quality or not working their shift or they quit because their lead was about to fire them.
Curious, can you make more money working for a hospital rather than a clinic?
I've never really did acute care and curious?
I suppose 4000/mo is too low for you?
What world do you live in?
20 hours/5000 lpp
It's on the MLS web site under company info, policies and procedures, part time policy.
AT&T's ULD is only 5000 minutes, which
may cover you for 2 weeks if you work FT. I'd be looking for another plan if I were you.
I was investigating this a couple of weeks ago and I did read somewhere about unlimited up to 5000 and then after that you would need to get a business plan, but I didn't specifically read anything that said the unlimited was only limited to 5000.
I did talk with someone at AT&T last week because I had switched from them to digital phone service through my cable internet provider and she said we have unlimited long distance for $24.95 and I said yes but your unlimited isn't really unlimited and she said no that the limit was 5000 minutes.
5000 lines?
Just saw a job posted and they wanted 5000 lines a day. Seems humanly impossible to me. Does this make sense to anyone?
5000 lines
I thought it was a typo and responded that I would need at least 1000 lines per day (thought it was 500) and he told me to go back and check the add, which I did. 5000!!!???
It is the 2nd add in the job postings.
Will e-mail him again and double-check. Maybe he means per week?!
Thanks for the response.
5000 lines
Duh! Now I do feel stupid!
Thanks for clarifying. Guess I need to practice actually READING completely!
That only probably leaves 5000 who
didn't e-mail you. A union will NEVER happen.
I use MS 4000 ergonomic - worked for me..
I developed tendinitis and some numbness and tingling in my fingers, but didn't have enough money to buy an expensive ergonomic keyboard so tried the cheapest I could find. I noticed that by holding my hands outward and up a bit, it relieved some of the pressure and that is what this keyboard essentially does.
It has taken about 2+ months, but the pain in my wrist is gone. It took a bit of getting used to and the keyboard sounds like a an old rattle trap, but now I like it and wouldn't go back. It might be an option if you don't have a lot of money to spend...mine was about $60.
Yes, is that 4000 dollars a month? If so,
At 6 cpl, you must've transcribed around 67,000 lines in that month. Now, do you have any idea what you could've made somewhere else? Well, at 8 cpl, you would've made around $5,360 and at 9 cpl, you would've made $6,030. You are soooo undercutting yourself by staying at a job that only pays 6 cpl.
Oh, and by the way, assuming you work approx. 40 hours a week, you must transcribe upwards of 400 lph. Most companies would LOVE to have someone that fast on board and would pay a whole lot more than 6 cpl for such a high producer!!! You should really check your options.
$4000 - PT - 20 hours week as IC. nm
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minimum 5000/week
I do 6000, about 1200 per day.
lol. My bad...I meant $5000 consistently
CHEERS!
Who can transcribe 5000 lines/day?
I have read on here that some of you can transcribe 300 or more lines per hour, which means it would take you around 16 hours a day!! I do not think there is anyone out there that can transcribe 5000 lines a day. He either means 500/day or 5000/week I assume.
Has anyone ever heard of this company or know who this Timothy Olyphant is? What do you think of this job offer? It says transcription project.
I would appreciate any info and your opinions. Thanks
I could certainly contract 5000 lines/day out to
Just because it's a job ad doesn't mean it is only addressing individuals transcribing alone.
I use the Microsoft wireless 4000 comfort keyboard
and had no trouble switching to it from my split keyboard. It is curved, so has a similar feel. I love being wireless. I use it with my laptop and work on it all day. I think I've been working wireless for about 2 years now and couldn't go back. I work with my keyboard in my lap, so the wireless is great.
Yes, 10 cpl, mininum of 5000 or 6000 lines per week I think. nm
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I'm fulltime IC, need to get 10,000 lines per pay period, believe parttimers need 5000 per pay
period. They've been very flexible with me, as long as I get in the required lines by the end of the pay period. We use DQS platform, which is user friendly, but I don't think it's as easy to get lines as on some of the other platforms, I think because of the way it counts them. DSG is a good fit for me, always treated me fairly, pay is on time.
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.
4000 lines a month of dollars? Either of which is not that great! So, what are you bragging about?
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On Google Finance they had under 4000 in December..total employees
Ditto.. Over 13 years experience working in hospitals doing all types of reports, currently working
for a national etc.. and Spheris told me I didnt have the qualifications. What cracked me up was the hospital I was working at at the time contracted some of our work out to them.. What a joke..I was good enough to work for a hospital and gave them work, yet not qualified enough for them. What is wrong with this picture.
MQ same situation. No pay for working holidays, no pay for working weekends nothing. Now noone works
much anymore and so they jerk the work out of the accounts to some place that throws it back with a lot of bad bad quality. This is the NE region. I dont know what the others are doing.
9 cpl, national, 10 yrs exp.
Unless you are an I/C then 9 cpl is good.
Which national is that?
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You are less apt to do it with a national!
More apt to do it with your own accounts or land a great paying job with someone who is not using the internet MTSOs, the internet robbers!
They pay you crap and suck the life out of you! Go independent.
Can you get a job at a national
with going to a community college for your MT education? Thanks!!
Which national is the best for...
flexibility, clinic work and fair pay. I have about 17 years of experience, looking for STEADY part-time work for now. If it works out with a company, I would consider full time. Who is the favorite national here? TIA
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