This is true..Put it this way. I made $45,000 this year but worked 3 jobs and at least 60
Posted By: Love ortho on 2007-04-01
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hours a week and sometimes up to 80. I have no desire to do that anymore. I'd be happy with $35,000 working 40 hours a week. What a dream job.
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my first year I made 16k. Doubled that second year. Going on year 6 with (sm)
two local accounts I earned 23,000.00 and a national I earned 35,400... 58,400 this year. Don't ask me how many hours, though, I really have no idea. I'm pretty motivated. (When people ask me how many hours I work a week I reply as many as it takes I'd say 40-50/week. I am also a fitness instructer and personal trainer, about 5 hours a week or so. Decent money (sometimes under the table!) but mostly I just do it for fun and to be social and wear cute work-out clothes.
that first year was a rough one... but I consider it part of my education.
I'm pretty motivated.
I have ALWAYS made more than the year before as an MT sm
I thought I had topped out at $30K, but no, I made $33K, surely THAT was the top. No, then I turned around and made $36K. I thought...maybe $40K was reasonable? Will do better than that this year.
I keep waiting for it to stay the same or drop, but not yet, not in 15 years.
I'm not a psychologist and I made nearly that last year.
So... maybe don't believe everything you read works both ways.
By the way, I work for a national and do not have my own accounts so it is possible to make that much with a national.
My QA score has never been less than 99%.
It is possible but it takes a lot of hard work and getting organized.
I have more than 1 job, I am an editor, and I made 106,274 last year
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I made excellent money in my very first year but ...
... that was about 13 years ago, and it was with a local MT who needed help for all her own accounts, all easy family practice office visits. She paid 9 cents gross line, didn't use a counter, just said to manually count the lines on each page (!) but was always at least $5 a page. We didn't use expanders, had no platform, just used a dictaphone machine hooked up to their office and just typed as it came in, 24-hour turnaround time, and anything that came in after 5 p.m. that day was considered the following days' work. It was great. Too bad the big corporations spoiled it for all the little guys out there like me and my mentor. I haven't made anywhere near what I made that first year since because the big corps ate up all the local accounts around here and won't pay more than 8 cents a line for clinic work. Sucks.
HA! First year made $30,000, that is working six months SM
for hospital and the next six months for small MT office with a very big account. Oh, those were the days!
I only check on here once a day (was feeling like it was an addiction). Last year, I made sm
$52,468 on my 1099. I am at $1.25 per report. I do work 8 hours M-F and 4 on Sunday. I average 18-22 reports an hour. I know that they are hiring for 3-11:30 on a really good account right now and 2-10 on another. My lead emailed me this morning to ask if if I knew anyone who might be interested.
Go for it. I made the move a little over a year ago and have not looked back.
Plenty of work, nice people, decent pay. All in all, one of the best decisions I have made.
True IC jobs
I would love to hear from you regarding true IC work. My E mail is posted.
True on my team. Maybe not on all. It has been made abundantly clear.
Glad you are better off with your STM.
I "only" make $1.15 per report and have made over $62,000 this year so far. I only work 8 hou
5 days a week and pick up one 4-hour weekend shift a month. It depends on the account, your company, the report length, your expanders, normals, etc. I made $1.43 with Edix before I switched and even though I took a per report loss, I make more money in the past 2 years than ever with Edix. I rarely run out of work, which is a HUGE factor. I know that the company I work for is both praised and condemned on this board, but I am happy at KS.
thank you. I already knew but this validates that I made a wise decision last year.
I was being paid 3.5 cpl, and I always did 100% proof to voice because if MY name is on the report, then it WILL be without errors, and quite honestly we did not have even one MT that I trusted enough to not do a complete proof to voice, which is actually very sad. I provided feedback on errors, for which I was not compensated since I was on straight production. We had tons of new MTs constantly, many of them abysmally bad.
My supervisor loved my work. She said I was the best QA Editor they had, and boy howdy I was because I also worked QC for a bit and got to witness the handiwork of my fellow editors. Nice that they paid their best 3.5 cpl, huh? I stuck it out for as long as I could because I genuinely loved my job, but there comes a time when you just have enough of being taken advantage of. They had wanted to promote me to something that was akin to a QA lead that would also involve training new MTs as well as continuing QA and QC. I would be paid salary, so that's good, but they arrived at the number by basing it on what I had made the previous year (at the lowly 3.5 cpl, mind you), so basically I would have been doing MORE work for the same money. Right. They obviously think we can't do math...lol.
I have gone back to MT. It's harder on my body, but at least I'm not being screwed.
Too good to be true but any QA jobs available
This seems to be the trend now. I have had to change jobs 3 times this year
due to this very fact. I'm at my third one now, and it is still happening. I've decided to just work 2 jobs. One part time and the other supposedly full time, but it is like a part time. The only reason I am staying at the third is because, I need the insurance, and changing between jobs before the 90 day probation has landed me without insurance, as I have had to change jobs before the 90 days are up.
I worked for a company that sent us something made
in China with their logo on it every year, most of which I've Freecycled or tossed. I'd rather not get something at all than get something like that.
KS pays me very well and while they aren't perfect, they are a very good company and have lots and lots and lots of work. That is worth a lot more than a $25 GC at Christmas. I wouldn't send it back if I were to get one, but a decent pay for the other 11 months is a much better gift.
I worked that way once, best money I ever made.
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When I worked with her, she made calls
to people when there were backlogs to get more help. She used to ask me what she could do/offer me to get me to come onboard full-time, so I always figured she was in upper management in order to be able to offer that.
Not true IMO.. when I was applying for IC less than a year ago
Tested for a few and did excellent, was contacted immediately, told me I did fantastic on the test (and I have over 15 years experience in everything including QA) and was excitedly offered a whopping 9 by the company cheerleaders! And that was with a schedule including a weekend day! So seemingly 9 is very difficult to get. I told them to keep their pom-poms! ;)
3 days true only for 1st year; then you go to 10. NM
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According to Allstate, they have a new account and have over 1500 jobs in backlog, is this not true?
What's the real scoop?
Howdy! In the last year, I applied and got offered jobs at a minumum of 10 companies
and not ONE single place checked any references - not 1. Even the one who said they would, Diskriter, never made 1 call. Do you feel lucky??
I have worked in another industry and made twice the amount - but it
didn't last long, about two years. sssiiiiggghhh!
I've made $35,000 for the years I worked there. SM
I would have to kill myself for $50,000 and I don't choose to do that. I give you credit if you were able to achieve it.
The pay rate has been lowered there now, due to SR. The rate of pay at MQ has always been higher, but this field is dying out where ever one goes.
Worked shift/made requirements
I would email them with just what you said, see what they come up with. This means essentially your kept your requirement to work you shift and made your line count, but it seems then you must MEET YOUR SHIFT AND LINE REQUIREMENT --- BEFORE the actual shift ends.
Post back what was said back, this stinks as usual with what is happening to MTs
Not true. Transcend tried to buy Keystrokes last year. sm
Keystrokes owners turned them down as they are not interested in selling and they are against offshore transcription. They are getting as big as Transcend, maybe even bigger, and they treat their employees a heck of a lot better!
Where do you get these rumors from? Not from anyone who knows.
I made 8 cpl when I worked for them 3 years ago. The ESLs were really horrendous, though.
Even the English speaking docs were bad. I just couldn't make any money with those accounts. Maybe things have changed in 3 years, but it was not a pleasant experience for me. It was my very first MT job.
I agree. I was with MQ and made fabulous money and worked for
large universities. Finally, I had enough and left 2 years ago and never looked back. It wasnt easy at first learning new hospitals but I am still at that place and am fine. Actually, I like learning new hospitals every now and then, takes care of the boredom. Now dont get me wrong, the money isnt as great, but I cant take the boredom. I lose my focus when I get like that and get sloppy I think. You just dont watch as closely so every now and then you need a reality check and get pulled back into shape, at least I do. I focus much more closely on new accounts.
I worked there for abour 4-1/2 years and made excellent money.
I hated to leave but I was only scheduled PT but allowed to work up to 40 hours a week as I wanted. Certain family obligations made me have to choose between FT at Spheris or my local accounts and I chose my local accounts.
I was pulling in about $40,000 a year.
I've worked 4 jobs before. I know what its like..
when money was tight, I got another job. (I had full-time MT job, waitressed at restaurant, bartended at a lounge, and cleaned and oversaw my apartment building) Did all that to move out of my parent's basement. That's how I am. Money's not so tight anymore because of BF, so now I have TIME to spend with my kids and I CAN appreciate that TIME because when I worked in-house, I didn't HAVE it. K. Enuf said.
I have worked 2 jobs for years. One
FT and the other as an IC or with a doctor's office. Works fine for me. I also have had the understanding with a doctor's office that the work is picked up twice a week. With my current IC job it is TRULY an IC, I let them know when I can work, how much I can work so it works just fine.
I have worked 3 jobs at one time on the same computer....sm
By luck 2 were using Dictaphone Word Client and the other was a Word-based program that did not conflict with Word Client. I just had to manually change the server info for the Word Client jobs, but everything worked together just fine. I was thinking of switching to a different company, but their VPN fought with the VPN I had to use for the one company, so not able to switch, but it can be done, if all the software will work together. I also have put a mobile hard drive rack in my computer and have 2 hard drives, so I could put one company software on the one hard drive and the other company on the other, it is a pain, but that works also. What really works the best is 2 computers and a switch box, but most companies are not sending computers any more, so that may not be an option. Good luck.
I have worked 2 jobs almost all of my adult life. sm
I was always raised to believe that you could do anything you wanted or have anything that you wanted if you were willing to work for it, so that is what I have done. I have worked at home the last 10 years or so, so that makes it not so tough. It would be different if I had to slap on the heels and hose and commute across town to the various jobs, plus try to run home to let my doggie out.
I agree with you in that you cannot leave your fate in the hands of any company. We have to take care of ourselves -- seems as though no one else is going to. I always get a bit nervous with the big holidays coming up, but I figure surely with 3 jobs (1 FT, 1 almost FT, and 1 PT), I can make it through unscathed this year. Hope so anyway ......
Sorry that you were forced into doing the extra job thing, but it certainly makes sense. The first work at home job I had, I panicked when I ran out of work and I called the office, only to have the account manager LAUGH at me and say oh, just take the day off. I was an employee, not an IC, and when it happened several days in a row, I did NOT find it amusing. Oh well... bad memories. Things are better now, and I hope they are better for you too. 
I worked for them about a year ago..sm
and they are a pretty decent company to work for. Paid on time, no pool work and easy pickup of work. Work slow downs occasionally. But would recommend them.
I worked for them for about a year sm
Nice group of people. Pay always on time.
I worked for mag until this year...SM
and it actually WAS a good company to work for. I had worked there for about 3 years this time and 6 months a long time ago. Glad I moved on.....
I have worked for them a year now.
No problems whatsoever. I have never had a late or bounced check. I've never had any problem with anyone in the office either. We get along well. I love my 48 turn around time, and the accounts I have are easy so can't complain about the low pay. I would rather have easy accounts where I can produce a lot than to deal with difficult dictators.
Have worked for them for almost a year...
I have been working for them for almost a year. I took the job there because they offered me about 2 cents more per line than any other place I was offered employment. They do, however, pay for headers, footers and pre-made templates.
I worked there about a year or so ago
and they treat you like you don't even exist. Every time I reached incentive lines they zapped me with more ESLs. They have alot of ESLs and there is almost no communication. Also spent alot of time looking up addresses, words, etc. Now I'm at Keystrokes and love it there! Good Luck.
I have worked for them for a year
I started working there a year ago when it was still CyMed, and it was great then. Now that it is SPI, things are doing downhill...at least on my account. They are really asking for a lot of overtime and not willing to pay any extra for it. I have just had 4 job offers with other companies and I have an interview/test with a local hospital where I live, and I am in the process of deciding which one to take, and then I am out of there. I noticed that over the past couple of months, I have not been getting my shift differential for working evenings and the managers are getting very demanding. While they do always pay on time and do offer benefits, I would probably look elsewhere due to things being so hectic.
I worked for KS last year
At that time I was was making $30-35 per hour. The reason I was able to do so well is because the account I worked on had templates and this really speeds up production, plus I only had 3 doctors on that account....so it is possible, no doubt about it.
I worked for them last year and always
ran out of work. I had two accounts. The enterprise platform is sort of nice, but is quite slow and has more than a few hangups. The people are very nice, but the Webmedx experience I got just wasn't worth my time. So, I for one, know exactly what you are saying.
I worked for them last year sm
The one QA gal that I liked they parted company with, her choice. I liked her because she was the only one who would answer my questions. The night QA/team lead they had on my account was a nice gal too.
I found the MT manager, at that time, because they may have a new one, to be very unfriendly and if she did ever answer a question, she was rather terse with me and I have heard she was with everyone. I knew what I was doing and I knew their platform at that time too. I didn't need too much help, only with some samples for a couple of difficult doctors and some direction for one who would always dictate 3 OP notes on every patient.
I found the dictators to be fine, not the very best, but not bad either. The voice files were clear. They paid me on time, every time and I never had a rubber check. I don't mind being left alone to work on my own, so much of this didn't bother me after the first few days when I had to work to get my questions answered. When I quit for a better offer I tried to get in touch with the MT manager and was not able to get any response from her. I got their emails for another 2 months too, but that didn't bother me, these things happen.
One of the things that scared me off was that at that time, they were trying to set up to outsource for Spheris doing part of their work because Spheris can't hire enough MTs. (They have a new ad up every couple of days on another site.) The platform they were going to...seems to me it was Vianetta, but don't quote me on that since I don't remember exactly. I also don't have any idea if they are still doing this or if they ever really did do it to start with, but that was in the works when I was there.
If you don't mind having to work to get some initial questions asked and you don't mind working on your own without a lot of assistance, you will probably be fine. Touchy feely this company is not, but they don't run out of work if my experience is worth anything. I know I never ran out and I worked 2nd shift doing OPs only.
These are MY experiences and while fairly recent, they may or may not reflect what is going on at ATSI NOW. Much can change in a very short while.
I hope this helps you.
When I worked there last year,
there was no time clock to punch. They might let you split your shift if that would help. They really don't pay very well and their incentive is not generous either, one cent per line extra, only for the lines past 12,000 per pay period.
I worked for them for about a year sm
Platform is okay, not great. You work live over the internet. You can only have 2 jobs in your queue. You do have to edit the header information quite a bit as the doctors don't seem to bother with it.
Lines -- i did fairly well on the line count there. I only worked part-time but it was not difficult for me to get 1000 lines a day. The only problem is you are assigned to a region of their hospitals -- so you have to get to know bunches and bunches of doctors. Some dictated all the time, but then you would get several a day you never heard of, so some days it was hard to get in a rhythm.
Pay -- pretty much standard to what everyone else is offering. They do pay on time, every time. They do offer bonuses when work gets stacked up (on top of the normal earned bonuses). Bonus weekends are VERY GOOD.
I have worked there a little over a year
and I would recommend them. Deb is great to work for, flexible scheduling, consistent work other than usual holiday slow downs.
I have worked there for a little over a year ...
I am only an MT but I have had no problems. I have never gotten charged for a blank, although I leave very few. I work at night, but I chose to because of the differntial. I have a good account and I get paid on time every time. I must be one of the lucky few that has a decent team leader even if he is indian (at least his name is). He answers quickly if I need something answered and leaves me alone.
In the end, only you can make the decision. 
Sorry, but I have worked there for a year
and have never run out of work for more than an hour or so. Some people do have plenty of work, while others have none. I don't know why that is, but I wish they would fix it too so there would be nothing to complain about.
I worked for them last year-pay is low
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Its been about a year since I worked for them, but
when I did (and I have on 2 separate occasions over the last 2 years), they were always running out of work. The pay was low, 3 cpl and 7.5 cpl. I don't know if anything has changed, but maybe someone who is there currently will respond.
I have worked for them for about a year
now. Absolutely love this job. I have heard negative things, but I think it depends on which account/supervisor you have. No problem at all. Very flexible, good incentive program. Just work when you say you will and keep your line count up and you will have no problems.
I worked for T-C about a year ago.....sm
The program they use is not difficult to learn, and the actual transcription is done in Word. You supply your own computer, software, etc. I believe they do supply the foot pedal; they used to, at least.
The management is okay and they don't bother you with a bunch of superfluous email. Pay is average to low-average, but they do have tons of templates and you are paid for the lines in the templates. However, if you are interested in medical insurance, they are a little high on their premiums and you would probably do better with your own policy. I think they offer 401K but not sure. Hope this helps.
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