I make about $1,500 a month working about 20 hours per week.
Posted By: another MT on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: I have made $2500-3000 for a national, but.... - Tired MT
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.
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I make 1300 per month 10 hours per week (IC) extra job
Must we choose either 8, 16 or 24 hours. Why would they want someone only working 8 hours a week.
That is less than SE are required now.
I want to know cpl and how many hours a week! Cause the 8000 to 9000/month person
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I doubt you will make enough money in 5 hours a week to make
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Yes. I earn almost $40,000 working 32 hours a week. nm
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I work 1 job, about 36 hours/week and make at
least that amount, plus have vacation and PTO, also an employee so they pay taxes. I found that working multiple account keep me from making money because I have to learn so many doctors and be aware of the different formats/platforms and account specific stuff. I used to work a bunch of jobs part-time and was working 7 days a week and lots and lots of hours and not making very much money. If I worked the same hours on one account I could have easily made $80,000+/year.
Why would anyone work 8 hours a week. The poster above said 16 or 24 hours a week.
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MDI-FL. Approximately 7 hours a month x12 months =84 hours
And your PTO acrues from day 1. You are just unable to utilize it until after 90 days. They have excellent benefits.
Sorry, I work 15 hours a day 5 days a week and 5 hours the other 2, when I come here I dont proof.
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Full time with Transtech is both. 40 hours per week and 5500 lines per week.
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Any companies that allow line count rather than hours or less than 20 hours per week? (sm)
Wouldn't mind having something extra especially with Christmas and general winter expenses coming up but working a FT job and really don't want to do another 20 hours on top of that.
Bare minimum? I make over $50,000 a year in 40 hours a week. That is not bare minimum. sm
Bare minimum would be $8 an hour which is $16,640 a year or $10 an hour which is $20,800 a year. I make more than twice that and that is NOT bare minimum.
I worked to get my typing speed to 80 wpm. I worked to get my Expanders user-friendly and plentiful. I am not the fastest because I look up what I do not know, but I am lucky to have a very good memory so if I type it a few times, I do not have to look it up. I keep notes when I run across something I do not know. I am interested in my profession and read the magazines for our profession and network with other transcriptionists during my free time, devoting a minimum of 2 hours per week to networking and learning new things.
I am not the fastest MT, but I am accurate and boiled it down to simple math. I need to transcribe 250 lines per hour for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. At 10cpl, that is 2000 lines a day x 5 days per week x 50 weeks per year. I take 2 weeks off per year during July to visit my grandchildren (unpaid), 1 week a year to vacation with my husband (paid) and 1 week a year to spring clean (paid). I have worked for the same company for 4 years and 8 years for the one before this.
I treat my work hours as work hours and take 1/2 hour for lunch which I do not include in my 8 hours. I pretend that I am working outside the home and do not answer the door, get the mail, do laundry, etc. If I have a good day and go over the 2000, I bank it in my mind for days that are not as good and make sure that I get 10,000 lines each week.
My W2 each year is consistently $50,000. A few years it was higher, but I worked a few weekends, which I no longer do.
It IS possible.
I do about 8 hours of OT a month.
I have high line counts but I had to work to do it. Have over 2500 entries in text expander. When the work pool changes happened, I started floundering pretty bad, for me at least. So, I asked that all of my supes accounts be listed as my primaries. I started one by one and learned them. I won't say I haven't worked harder than ever but now I'm doing really well as every account under my super, I know well. I plan to start the same with the manager's accounts. The more I know those accounts, the better off I am.
I would do more OT but I don't want to run myself into the ground physically so I limit it to about 8 hours a month. Usually we get asked to do OT 3-4 times a month so I do 4 hours at a time.
I just sit down, start working, don't stop until lunch. Then walk away for an hour for lunch and sit down and work without stopping until I'm done for the day. I don't keep checking my lines, or surfing or posting anywhere. While I'm working, I'm dedicated to it.
YES, they do. 8 hours on weekends per month.
Full-time 16 hours per month on weekends.
Been there a week? A month? Do you see the opportunity to add to your expander
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You do not get PTO for 16 hours a week. 24 hours or more for the PTO. nm
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20 hours per week
I have 3 accounts and work about 20 to 22 hours per week on them including printing, delivering, cutting apart chart notes, clean up their dictation, change things, etc. and I make betweem the three of them (5 docs, 2 surgeons, 2 IM's and one plastic surgeon) $3200 to 3400. Guess I am lucky. Work at a clinic doing electronic chart notes and get paid $15 hour plus benefits and put in as many hours as I want -- up to 20 and sometimes bring tapes home and make 1200 to 1400 there. Not bragging but the accounts are out there.
Patti
because anything over 40 hours a week
has to be paid at OT line rate if you are at full-time employee status. That's probably why.
IC - 30 hours week. nm
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32 hours/week
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More like 80 hours/week hu?
More like 80 hours/week hu? Unless you work your booty off and have no life or have a slew of macros that you use for EVERY word transcribed.
Only 36-40 hours a week
It actually only takes me 6-8 hours a day of transcribing to make that much. The platform is great, and I do nothing but ER reports. Love it!
Doing great! Made more money in one week at TT than I did in a whole month
at previous job!
16 hours a week or 8 a week and get
401 K.
Anyone know of a company that needs about 10 hours a week...
I'm looking for part-time work, about 10 hours a week. I've got 13 years full-time acute care experience and just need a few hours, Mon-Fri, morning or night!
Interviewed the other day - PT is 15 hours per week. (sm)
Don't know much about the way the jobs load, but she did say people are only taking 2 weeks or less to get up to speed. (Of course, I know, they can tell you anything.)
The recruiter was very pleasant, the test was a verbal thing, and the pay was decent.
how may hours a week do you work
or maybe a better question is how many lines a day do you do?
Anyone know if TransTech will do PT less than 20 hours per week? nm
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how many hours a week do you work to get this?
so, you don't really know what it's like to work a national.
How many hours do you work a week? (NM)
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$4000 - PT - 20 hours week as IC. nm
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What companies have 10 or less hours per week...
Most companies want 20 hours for part time, but with working outside the home, it's hard to swing it. Anyone know of any? Thanks so much.
At mine it's 8 hours/day, 40 hrs/week.
SMALL PRINT:
What they DON'T bother to tell you is that with the minimum line count you're going to be expected to produce daily, it's going to take you 12+ hours to get it all done. 4 hours of which, you know, you will NOT be paid for.
THAT's 'full-time' employment in the MT world.
Spheris PT 20 hours week?
Do they require 20 hours a week for PT and/or weekends?
Not really...Minimum of 35 hours per week plus SM
more hours if they need you to work which means no part time.
PT has to be 24 hours a week at 100 LPH minimum.
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sorry should have put an average of 24 hours per week.
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Can anyone working at MD-IT please tell me how much you pay for insurance per month?
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HOW DO YOU GET OVER TIME IF YOU DON'T WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK?
That is a great gig you have going. Do you have to work weekends?
How many hours in a week do you normally work to get your lines in?
Just curious. I work 50-plus hours here to make it work for our family, would love to cut back
I lacked 5 hours for the last week. Think that'll be okay since
work was low? I was going to make it up Sunday, but work still low and didn't want to take from the scheduled folks.
MQ requires 24 hours per week for PTO benefits.nm.
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The MTs can't be forced to work over 40 hours in a week
unless paid OT pay. If the work is not getting done, maybe they need additional help on the account or MTs who can actually do the work in a reasonable time to stay in TAT.
You didn't mention how many hours a week
you are working. ??
You didn't mention how many hours a week
Five days a week; 10-12 hour days.
Any companies out there that allow you to work 5-10 hours a week?
I have a full time job, but need to make a bit more income. Are there any good companies that might work for me? Thanks for any input.
PT 20 hours week including 1 weekend day ....nm
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Just curious - how many hours a week do you work? nm
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Any companies let you accrue PTO with less than 40 hours per week? (sm)
WMX used to give FT benefits at 35 hours per week. I can do without the insurance, etc. but really hate to give up PTO.
Meant to say..1st day of next month after you start working ...
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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). 
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