Me 16 yrs. experience. Offered 7 cents too.
Posted By: Didn't take it. nm on 2009-04-02
In Reply to: 7 cpl doesn't make sense. - Anon
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go to MQ and get offered 6 cents
to start - that is an insult - for 10, 11 and 12 cents and up you need to look at IC work which means no benefits at all and then you get the highest rates paid or find a company who pays a gross line rate
They offered me 8 cents - sm
I have over 20 years of experience and all they offered was 8 cents. I passed, obviously.
20 yr + exp. they offered 5 cents
I have over 20 years experience and Spheris offered me 5 cents a line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just offered 2 cents for QA
what a slap in the face.....
I was offered QA position for 2.5 cents
Please someone tell me.... what is the acceptable pay for QA jobs?
I was offered 10 cents/line. I think they pay very well! nm
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not even. they offered me 7 cents!!grrr
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I was just offered 7 cents a line too but...
it was a radiology account, not acute care. I believe acute care was quoted as 8.5 cents.
They offered me 9.5 cents a line in August of 2007
I don't think that is very low.
7-1/2 cents for 5 years experience?
You're outright lying. You'd have to make at least 12 cpl to make 7-1/2 with ISR (not VR, as you're saying).
I have 11 years experience and am on 9 cents a line
and I'd say 9.5 cents per line is pretty good these days!
Offered 7.25 cpl for 30 years experience - sm
Your offer sounds like a good deal compared to mine, but neither is what we are worth.
12 yrs experience, offered 8.5 cpl in the last 6 months. :( nm
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TTS offered me 6.5 cpl with 20 years' experience
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I was offered 8 cpl with 19 years of experience.
I was going to give it a try, but I didn't want to purchase equipment for a job paying 8 cpl. Sorry, but that's way low if you ask me. I think it is a rather small company though. 
I have many many years of experience and was offered....
7.5 cpl as employee or 9 cpl for IC. Seemed way too low to me, especially after I was told what the account was like. They seem nice, but nice doesn't pay the bills! Good luck to you!
20 years of experience and offered
I was offered 8 cpl with 12 years of experience. Did NOT accept the job!! nm
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Use MT-World software, offered 8-1/4 cpl for experience, cap MIGHT be 9 cpl. nm
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They use MT-World software and only offered me 8-1/4 cpl for experience. nm
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10 yrs experience w/CMT Alltype offered 8.75 per line : (
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Do know either question, but I was offered 8 cpl on 1100 lpd with experience. You get 8.5 cpl if U
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Offered pay for 6 months experience... any good?
I got offered a position to type some reports in a specialty I have been typing for 6 months. I was offered 7cpl for 65 character line. Does not pay for hard returns, tabs, empty lines, headers, footers are not paid. Spaces between words are.
At my other position I was getting 6cpl including hard returns.
How do I figure out if this new offer is equal or better than what I already had?
Yes, I know neither are high paying. I am new to the industry, only finished my course 7months ago. BUT, this particular specialty is easy for me and I have very high marks with QA.
Any and all advise is welcome. Thanks!
I had applied but they offered 7 cpl for 14 years experience..I said NO...
That's about all I know. I cant remember what kind of work it was either, but I wouldnt do clinic or acute care for that low pay.
Soooo...if those WITH lots of experience are being offered
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I was offered less than 7cpl this year with 10+ yrs experience.
Was offered 8-1/4 cpl for experience. They use MT World software. Didn't take the job. nm
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I was offered 8 cpl w/years of experience. He wouldn't say if pay would go up if I didn't take
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ATSI uses MT-World software. Pay offered was low for experience. nm
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Paying for experience is NOT the norm out here. I'm finding newbies getting offered my same 8
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Fifteen years experience here and also offered 8 cpl as a max at multiple companies. This biz is
going down hill fast. I remember making 10 cpl 10 years ago and that was cheap..Only profession I know that has gone down in wages rather than up. Very sad. If you offered 8 cpl..take it..
They use MT-World software. I was offered 8 cpl for experience. Benefits are supposed to kick in at
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A year ago, I was offered 8 cpl for experience and I needed my own Word 2003. I turned them down. nm
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What is average? 7 cents, 8 cents, 9 cents? 65-character?
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I also work for 8 cents a line. I left a job typing OPs for 10-11 cents sm
to take a clinic job. I made an average of $17-18 an hour with OPs, now make $16-17 an hour, but the work is easier on me. I do not call that poor pay. I type 200+ lines an hour. True, it isn't the $26-27 an hour I was making 10 years ago at a hospital, but that's gone for good. I have excellent skills, make better than 99% on QA at any company I have worked for, and some of those have been very demanding.
I'm afraid the people that are expecting to make $20-30 an hour in MT are going to be disappointed. A few can still make that amount, but for the average good transcriptionist, the pay is much more likely to run $15-20. Benefits are pretty much gone. However, I feel that what I'm making is considerably above what I could make in another field, unless I decide to teach, which I will not do. Still, I make more than I would at Walmart or Burger King, or even a secretarial job. It's my choice. Good luck to you.
The mentoring program does not pay 8-1/2 cents per line. Believe it is like 6 cents.
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4 CENTS , SCHMORE CENTS. THAT'S WRONG!
Whether an MT is new or an editor, 4 cents a line is deeply insulting, and 9 cents per line isn't really too much better. You know, I understand that most of these MT companies want to save money, but most of them don't seem to want to pay what an MT's time and skills are really worth. Why not pay an MT who has been in the field for 7-10 years or more 15 or 20 cents per line? At least I might consider working for one of these companies at home if I were to be paid that much straight off the bat for having 12 years' experience, but I guess that would be too much like right...
Do they still pay you 5 cents a line and 2 cents if you send anything to QA?
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I have a problem with 7 cents and 8 cents a line because
...when I started 15 years ago, my very first MT job started me out at 8 cents a gross line, then went to 9 cents a gross line after only a year. I was SOOO happy and proud of myself for choosing a profession that paid so well - I imagined myself making a lot of $$ once I had 10 or 15 years experience behind me...
Well that never happened; in fact, it all went backwards, pay wise. The company I worked for back then sold out to a national, and of course the pay was cut, and 9 cents a gross line was never to be had again, at least not that I could find. I am considered living in poverty now. I started out great but have ended up very badly.
I think my own personal problem is that it's hard for me to let go the fact that I made good money just starting out and how everything I had ever learned about jobs, careers and pay was that the more experience and education you have in a particular field, the more your pay goes up as each year passes. Well my pay has been consistently taking a nosedive for at least a decade now. I actually have to work MORE to make at least as much as I did years ago, and it's killing me health-wise as far as my wrists, my legs, my neck, my back....
It also kills me that I'm going to have to accept 7 or 8 cents a 65-character line when I made so much more than that 15 years ago.
I suppose to someone who's just starting out, 7 or 8 cents would seem pretty good, though. Maybe that's why I haven't been able to land any jobs with my resume. They may not want me with my years of experience, probably want a newbie who will be more grateful about such low pay. I dunno.
I could just kick myself for wasting money on MT school those years ago when I could've spent it on a career that would actually LAST and where I'd be making great money after being in the same field for 15 years. There's just no reward to this business. None at all, IMO.
I would NOT recommend this field to anyone just getting started. To me, it's a dead field.
I'd have more freedom working at McDonalds (for a number of reasons), and, believe me, I've been considering taking a local job around my home for minimum wage. At least I'd have a consistent paycheck and would know exactly what I'm getting every 2 weeks, then build from there as far as another job or two.
Well anyway that's all. I really need a job. I'm going down, going under, and it's a shame because I do very good work and have all this experience but no one seems to want me, even the low-paying companies. Oh well.
Few cents here, few cents there stolen from you by
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I'll add my 5 cents to your 2 for 7 cents sm
I AGREE WITH YOU!
I know an MT who sits on her laurels and whines about no work and only getting 9 cpl after 5 whole years of experience. She can type 3 specialties, won't touch an ESL, goofs off when there is work and whines when there is not. I have tried to help, but it is quite plain to me she doesn't want that help.
I have about 3 times the experience of the above MT. The only specialty I have not done is pathology. I have literally done everything else. I know the BOS 2 like the back of my hand and I have outstanding accuracy scores (even if I can't type straight here). I work as an employee and make a base rate of 8.5 cpl, which I never get because I always have some of the different incentives offered. I regularly turn that 8.5 cpl into $25 an hour and at my PT job where I get 10 cpl and faster software, I can turn that into $32.50 an hour.
I have heard, more times than I can count from other MTs that they wish they could have my income. I can tell they why they don't. It is called hang out to complain on a message board like MTStars. It is doing everything, BUT your work on your shift. It is your lack of a willingness to learn new things, even if they slow you down some. This very year, recently in fact, I was put on straight cardiology procedure notes and I didn't worry for a second that I would suffer financially. I AM FLEXIBLE and that, in a nutshell, is why most MTs will not succeed.
A long time ago I realized that if I want more money, I was going to have to work SMART, not hard. In my 15 years, I now make 5 times what I did my first year and at the same exact line rate I had then! I spend less time working to achieve that these days. So no, I can't agree with your sky is falling routine.
Most of you...your attitudes suck. If I had to have you on site as my employees, you would not last 15 minutes. The first time I heard you at the water cooler whining about your pay, I'd fire your fanny so fast it would make your head SWIM. I have eyes in the back of my head too, so when you started making that stink face you are making right now, I'd have sacked you for that, on the spot, no warning and no day's pay. The ONLY reason you all get away with this is that you THINK no one who knows you is watching and that your respective contract holders can't figure out who you are.
By and large, I can't tolerate other MTs as friends. I find them lazy, self-absorbed whiners and complainers with some the worst negative attitudes I have EVER seen! If you hate MT so very much GO GET A JOB DOING SOMETHING ELSE. I can tell you, your bad attitude, your tendency to complain, whine, witch (with a capital B), moan and ALWAYS see the most negative side of everything...THAT crap will follow you to that new career and it won't be any better than this one. You have issues and I really think they are issues for a good therapist. They are called personality disorders and many of you have them in multiples and in spades!
I think you should be completely and utterly ashamed of yourselves. Too many people are out of work, homeless, and starving this Christmas to be so opinionated and selfish.
Here, here. Exactly my experience also, even down to the 10 year work experience. nm
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Their ad says 9 cents, not 10. nm
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Just my 2 cents but here goes.
1. Schedule window. You know, like do 1000 lines on Monday between 7am and 7 pm. Something like that.
2. 8.5-9 cpl is fine with me, but a raise every 1 or 2 years as long as I have a good quality rating,95-100%.
3. Pay at least 1/2 (ideally 3/4) of the benefits. An HMO or PPO. 401 K and PTO are necessary for full time and nice for SE too.
4. I prefer employee status.
5. Direct deposit is nice but not a requirement.
6. Pay every other Friday would be good.
7. I would say what makes me stay (and who says I am right now) is QA and their attitude helping me with my work, training so I can learn different specialities to raise my rate, pay while training so I don't get penalized for learning something new and being more valuable to my company and answers to my equipment/work flow problems in a timely manner so I don't waste my time sitting on my hands waiting for work and/or equipment to be fixed. And the feeling that I am not so easy to replace, that I am appreciated. That's what I want for Christmas.
Want my 2 cents? -sm
I'd continue to look for another job and when you find a good one that pays what you'd like, give your notice and see if they offer you more then. They may or may not, but if I were you, I'd be ready to leave about now.
I've also found that if you don't want to take what they're offering, if you do manage to negotiate more money out of them, expect to get less work.
My 2 cents
Okay, some slamming going on here. I do not find that there is dishonesty in line counting---have not had a problem in 4 years, paycheck is always accurate.
Yes, they do QA you 100% at first. If you are good at what you do, this will not be a problem either.
As for running out of work, it happens with all nationals and especially this time of year; HOWEVER, it also makes a difference what shift and accounts you work on. I find that splitting my shift (for family and carpal tunnel reasons), that I never have an issue with no work. I will say that your manager will make a difference, some are good, some not so good. It is obvious that they like you to be someone who can work independently, not needing constant contact with someone. That is my style and it works for me, maybe not for you. Good luck and welcome aboard!
8.5 cents
My opinion is, without spaces it's not all that great. I have been checking around and have found 8 cents with spaces is about average.
4 cents
Chase told me they pay by the word.
My 2 cents
I worked there a few years in QA and the MT quality was horrendous. The U.S. editors were usually blamed for it in the end (even though we were only given a certain percentage to edit). We were often told that such-and-such client wasn't happy with the quality and they could lose the account so they put the pressure on the U.S. editors. Needless to say, I saw many clients come and go and personally know doctors who have used companies that offshore and it usually takes about six months until they realize their transcription (or coding) is completely beyond repair and they decide to go back to in-house or U.S. companies.
It still amazes me that so many clients are willing to send such confidential records overseas to save a few bucks. What they don't realize is - how much more EXTRA money they will need to spend in the end to fix the mess.
2 cents
Oh I know exactly how you feel, Medquist is the exact same way!!!
I'd do it for 15 cents or more.
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