My math error, sorry. sm
Posted By: darlene on 2009-06-24
In Reply to: Are you using new math? - I tried a calculator
But it is not for me, I don't want to do 2000 lines a day, 250 lines an hour, for 7.5/lines for $150. bucks. Burn out. Nobody should have to work like that to make a living not with the junk dictation.
but ya all go ahead..
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Ya, but it's not a spelling error, it's a grammar error!
Get it?
Do the math. How many MTs do you have that (sm)
are actual OSi employees? Also, how many of those MTs are you losing on a daily basis?
there would be math! sm
Just kidding!
do the math
I have another a/c with about 30 MDs over the period of the week. No one does 20-25 reports an hour on this one either except Sat/Sun when they are doing all chest & bone x-rays.
Perhaps some day I'll work for a place where 20-25 reports an hour can be done. For all the places I've worked that would amount to 400-500 lines/hr. perhaps even 600 in some instances.
The cardiology interventional I do on one a/c often run 100+ lines. You want to take $1.75-2.00 for that? LOL. What is that, let's see 0.0175 to .02 a line. A 40-line CT @ the low end of $0.07 line comes out to $2.80. 20-line US is $1.40. Get my drift here?
Don't tell me about how good you are at shortcuts. LOL. You should be making a decent salary with a minimum of these, and should be making the big $$ for being REALLY good at this and for being a fast typist. Not a decent salary for both.
How are you doing your math?
Are you assuming 1o words per line?
Math
1000 words x .11 cpl =$110
1000 words x .10 cpl =$100
Any more questions?
Let's do the math ...
I do work for a company that pays me half a cent more per line because I am a CMT. So every 3 years I have to spend about $300 (i.e., about $100 per year) to maintain that credential. I average around 15,000 lines per pay period. Multiply that by 0.005, and I am getting an extra $75 every 2 weeks (or $1950 per year) for being a CMT. In my case, it's well worth it.
Do the math
You say you did 2 test reports in under 10 minutes?
If you do 3 reports in 10 minutes = thats a whopping 2.10 every 30 minutes or 12.60 per hour.
4 every 10 minutes is 16.80...
etc.
math anyone??
What I do know is that 22% of each report is spaces, period. So I am not sure how 54 characters equates.
Any math whizzes out there?
Someone help me with my math...
 Every 10 seconds of dictation is 15 lines. If I make 100 minutes a day for radiology at 11/cpl, how much is that in 1 day? Or is this equation incomplete? ugh.
Are you using new math?
If you transcribe 2000 lpd you would earn $150 at 7.5 cpl/200 lph
$150 pd x 10 days in a pay period = $1500
$1500 x 2 paychecks a month = $3000 a month (most months have 21 or 22 work days in them)
Assuming you worked 8 hours a day for 20 days in a month, your hourly rate is $18.75 for every hour worked.
I get the impression this is clinic work not acute care. It is harder to do 2000 lpd consistently on acute care, but not so with clinic after getting accustomed to the account. I don't know anything about this company. I'm just making an observation.
Well, I did the math for me
I make .075 cpl. New ISR rate for me 0.46875 (less than 5 cpl).
11001 lines at my current rate = $1045.09
11001 lines at my new ISR rate = $735.69
Net LOSS per WEEK if my production doesn't change= $309.40
Provided of course, I can even GET that many lines to type. I can't any more. I have NSA as I type this. There's not enough work NOW. No matter how fast you get at ISR, if there's no work to type, you make NADA!
Math ??? Not correct
16 hours a day at $50 dollars an hour times 6 days equals 4800 a week times 52 weeks equals 250,000 a year. But if you take 16 hours times 6 days x 52 weeks equals 4992 hours which if you divide that by your 100 K = $20 per hour. Not bad. And if you make 250,000 but only have 100,000 after taxes why work that hard for less than 50% of the pay.
I did the math a few weeks ago and it is (sm)
roughly a difference of 15.5% - I say 'roughly' because I did the count on Word and have been told Word does not give an accurate count - but used same program for the whole document and figured several ways....
I did the math about 3 months ago and it was
a 15.5% reduction for w/o spaces - this was done on 3 reports using Word and I've been told Word counts or does not count weird things that should be counted - but I figured the same 3 reports as one large document and checked it for a 65 line with spaces, w/o spaces, refigured again on a 55 character line with and w/o for both an MT rate of pay of say 10 cpl and also on a QA line rate of say 4 cpl and it all basically came back at approximately a 15.5% reduction. I had been told before it was 17% and it might well be 17% figured on a different line counter program - but if you do the math over a 2 week period or however long your pay period is - this can make a significant difference!! Good luck.
Oops! Sorry can't do math..30%
Check out this math. LOL
Did you mean $5.50 per 1,000 words? If so, 1,000 words x 5 Keystrokes = 5,000 characters. 5,000 characters/65 cpl = 76.9 lines. $5.50/76.9 = just over $.07 cpl. It seems to be on par.
No my math is fine
Actually my math is fine, been working with industry standards a long time :)
average 10 words per line
AVERAGE
and i'm no longer an MTSO. just a grunt who's happy to be one
ERROR....
I posted the above asking for information about Transform, Inc. and said they were located in Wisconsin. I made a mistake they are located in Missouri. Thanks.
error sm
supposed to be hire not high resistance....darn expander!
Wow, sounds like someone's been doing their math homework.
I bet you grabbed your calculator immediately after you read her post and started punching in numbers. LOL! And you all talk about Happy OSi'er having too much time on her hands? You apparently have plenty of time on yours too. Get a life!
Correct my math if I am wrong....
I have calculated that 22% (on average) of a report is spaces (by manual count). So...if we have to cut out half of the spaces...that is an instant pay cut of 11%. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently they do not think we are capable of doing the math.
The math is there and it is not pretty!
I've never been good at doing the math... SM
Thanks for doing it for me. The definitely is way too low.
Not a lot of room for error
If you know the BOS 2. Then apply. If you don't. Do not apply. A very strict MTSO to work for.
Then what you said in your first post was in error. sm
You specifically said, and I quote *The American Medical Association allows foreign nationals who practice in this country to join their association and nobody thinks a thing of it.* That was an error then, right? Because they are certifying and allow members from other countries, who have driven the working wage down and taken our jobs. That is the reality. Did you see where union workers are very angry about the illegal aliens. Why do you think that is? Do you know that it is projected if the illegal aliens continue to flood this country, the minimum wage will never be raised. Illegal aliens and offshoring benefit the greedy employer and the rest of the work force are punished for it. I'm so happy you can be so magnanimous about it. If you are certifying members in INDIA, PAKISTAN and TIMBUKTU, you should take the name AMERICAN out of the name of the association. Period. Full stop. End.
you DO get an error message BUT
you can just bypass it. it says that you are not connected so it cannot get rid of your job but just click cancel and when you connect it will get rid of the jobs. it is the voice files it is trying to dispense.
Good luck with your Grandma!!
Have you figured your error out yet?
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Now here's a spelling error!
foreing?
Your post has an error....
If you do not proof your email when I applying for a job, how do we know you will be more careful when transcribing?
Does that include the recruiter proofreading a post on this board? I see an error. What gives? I know you are not an MT, but can you find your own error?
I would have to assume that works both ways. Have a great day!
That's not the only problem they have. I get more error
messages and downtime from that crappy program than I spend working. Nothing is user friendly and its always one excuse after another why it can't be fixed.
that would be **** chained*** error n/m
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Fuzzy math. A 40% cut in pay is not offset by a 40% increase
in production.
To break even in this picture, you would have to have a much greater increase in production. IF you currently do 2000 lines a day at 8 cpl, and your new "blended" rate pays 4.8 cpl, you would have to do 3,334 lines to break even, or at least a 67% increase in production. Do you all really think you can do it?
that s/b math, didn't mean to sound ugly.
Augusta Medical Transcription -- help me do the math (sm)
Augusta has a job advertised $1.25/thousand characters, 65 character line including headers and footers. So, that's equal to a little over 8 cpl -- right? I have never seen a company state pay in such a way.
If the error changes meaning of the report
Because that's dangerous. It should be something that almost never happens though.
Sorry, error made here and I meant to say
it was NOT as much as I first thought. Sorry :)
QA error values survey...
I am just curious and trying to get a randomized answer regarding error values when an editor/QA/QC audits reports. For example: Major medical error has what point value, minor English error has what point value, etc. Also, if you don't mind stating what company this is or was for? If you would rather email me, you are more than welcome.
Subtle way of correcting her error. I like that.
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The e-mail I got didn't say anything about an error. If
there was an error why not just say so and tell us what it is and put our mind at ease. The email Thursday assuring us the money would be in our accounts by the end of the day or checks overnighted to us shouldn't have been sent when they know it wasn't going to happen. Not e-mailing us first thing Friday to tell us what was going on didn't help things. I'm fairly new so I'm not in panic mode yet, but then my bills are paid and my cabinets are stocked. I do think the situation has been handled poorly and for top management not to address the situation is irresponsible.
Mine didn't say error either
This is the part that is so unsettling for me too. And the fact that the human resource/payroll person doesn't even know what is going on and the fact they will not let her know what is going on is what is unsettling for me. If they would just come right out and let us know what the heck is going on, then I would be a little more at ease. But, no one is saying ANYTHING. However, supposedly the money is there.......
I guess it depends on what your error was.
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Yes, they do. So sorry to have made an error and forced you to have (sm)
to take your time to correct those of us who are not perfect.
If one dares to point out an error a QA
made, one might just quit because she will make your life really nasty, especially when she's the supervisor's friend.
And this does not only apply to Axolotl. It happens everywhere.
Any math wizards out there that can help..Based on a 65 character line,
if you were not paid for spaces, what would 11 cpl (w/o) equal? It sounded good, but when I did the math it was lower than 8 cpl with spaces? I hope I'm not right.
Sorry I know people have asked this before but I couldnt remember answer.
I am not slow, and there is no reason to attack me. Simple math says that if you sm
can type 300 lines per hour @ 9-10 cpl versus 6.5 cpl, which place would you go? If you cannot figure THAT one out, perhaps it is not me who is slow.
This was in ERROR-was referring to Trans Tech!
This post below was in error. I thought you were referring to Transtech - all of the same applies, however, great company (Trans Tech) pay on time, etc etc:)
She didn't make 1 spelling error that I can see.
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Not the Op, but do you not see a simple grammatical error in your post? nm
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It all depends on the percentage of the error assessed.
I have worked for a couple of companies who charge an extremely high amount of points for punctuation errors. If this is the case, one can definitely dip into the 80s with punctuation errors.
That is heard, not heart. Must be a subliminal error!
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