Transcend pays 3 cents per line on holidays, plus sends a handwritten card to all
Posted By: TRCR on 2007-12-20
In Reply to: I hear ya. This just keeps getting more and more depressing. So, now, where is the appreciation for - MDI/Transcender123
employees. I have worked for many companies and I have never seen a company that cares as much as Transcend.
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Transcend always sends a nice handwritten card and a gift card
I just got my card today, and it is still five days before Christmas.
You really cannot please all the people all of the time, even when it comes to gift giving. I am so surprised at some of these comments.
Merry Christmas to all!
Transcend only pays 55% of line rate for editing...
I could have dealt with an 80% cut. I think that is a very fair rate. That is my whole point. I do not have a problem with the fact that they are moving to ALL editing. I have a problem with the cut being too large. I think 6 cpl would have been fair. That allows you to make a decent wage, but 4 cents is absolutely ridiculous. If voice recognition is the way of the future, at least MQ is doing something right, at least trying to be fair. Transcend is just greedy!!
UPDATE: CARD AND GIFT CARD ARRIVED TODAY FROM TRANSCEND. USPS STINKS...
It tooks what looks like over 2 weeks to get there. It could have been shipped to a third world country is that much time. Shame on USPS. I guess you get what you pay for..even at 41 cents.Yikes. Sorry to my employer.
Transcend bought MDI, so if Transcend sends work offshore, so does MDI. nm
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Holidays - Is there any company who pays holidays?
Are there companies (like in the old days) who pay you for Christmas, NY, Thanksgiving, etc., MAJOR HOLIDAYS?
Axolotl pays holidays
We get 8 hours of holiday pay. If we work, we get our regular line rate PLUS the holiday pay and have the option of taking our holiday off another day. GREAT COMPANY!!!
I agree but at least TT pays 1.5 for holidays
Helps a little.
Transcend sends all the good work to India and leaves all the
garbage for the MTs in the States so they can keep the indian slime working. n donkeys are that do the work. Transcend is not a good place to work
For what it's worth, Transolutions pays 6 holidays
but only requires that you work a rotating schedule of 3 one year, the other 3 the next year. I generally offer to work any of them that I can if my daughter is with her dad since the money is so good.
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.
Merry Christmas to you too! I think it is great that Transcend sends out gift cards to employees.
I wonder how many other companies do that. Let's see, with over 1000 transcriptionists that is 25,000.
Again, thank you Transcend!
Webmedex pays 6 holidays for ft employee status.
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Still waiting for work, but I figured it out. WMX pays for holidays (sm)
but only IF you get your required lines/hours in. Of course the work was low over the weekend, but we expected that, and now EVERYONE is making sure they qualify for the holiday pay. Make sense?
The mentoring program does not pay 8-1/2 cents per line. Believe it is like 6 cents.
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Whoever posted TT pays 1.5 for holidays worked or not is TOTALLY WRONG !
TT pays for NO holidays any day of the year. It is paid at 1.5 line rate ONLY if you work those fingers to the bone that day.
Only those who work inside the office building GET PAID and GET TIME OFF, too. LOCKED DOORS ! Who made that policy? Great policy for mgmt. and other office staff. sigh
I'm on an account that pays 9 cents
at Transcend and it is so horrible I only make about $12/hour, down from about $25/hour from my last account. So you are not necessarily better off making more per line. That is what I am telling myself as I look for a different company.
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.
and pre-Transcend, we at least got a Christmas card and even
a very much appreciated gift certificate, but guess Transcend is too cheap to allow that for MDI
I got a gift card from Transcend!
I am very happy about thank and thankful for a great job!
Transcend gift card
I got my gift card from Transcend today too. Its not a ton of money but every year they send us one. It is nice to be remembered.
Oh, they make money off us. Line rate is 17 cents a gross line.nm
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Nothing from Transcend, although I heard others got gift cards or at least a card. I've worked th
several years so if it was just a case of being forgotten that is still pretty pathetic. How do you forget your employees, especially when you get junk bulk mail from there regarding nothing that involves you..but at Christmas you were forgotten. Oh well, I have work and for that I am grateful so I'll be nice...
Does anyone know how Transcend pays out
Their $1000 sign-on bonus? Thanks so much!
Transcend pays still
one day, 4 hours with trainer = $60.00
transcend and differentials, weekends, nights, holidays
what does Transcend pay for these, anyone know?
Transtech pays as much as Transcend
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I get double line pay on holidays
usually not much work, cuz we focus on clinic work, but we do get double line rate on the major holidays.
TransTech Pays for Internet does Transcend?
I just read that they reimburse for internet, does Transcend do this too?
So, Transcend pays half of MT rates for ME?
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Transcend pays hourly or at least they did a year
I think Transcend pays hourly for training for
But, I think the training is Monday through Thursday and I think you do 10 reports a day. This is how it was last year, but I'm not sure about now.
Transcend pays for experience and I thought the
They have quite a few accounts. They are a large company.
Transcend pays more. There is editing and straight transcription. Let's just say..they pay more
than 9 cpl, double of what people will be making at RC Transcription.
Who pays by the gross line? Anyone?
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AllType pays by the line
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We do not keep handwritten logs at all. I don't think that
any of the leads require it. I just checked with a few of the others that I know that work for KS too and they do not either.
10 cents per line
so does AccuSTAT, Wisconsin for ER work!!!
This would be cents per line.
If it were more like 65-70 cpl, it would be characters per line.
CPL = cents per line
Then of course you need to know how they define a line. "Standard" is 65 characters is a line, but that might be with spaces or without spaces being counted. Also, not all companies a define a line this way, and it could be gross line (anything on a line, even one character is considered a line), or it could be a character line (with or without spaces).
But...CPL means cents per line.
MA 3 cents per line
Yes, yes. I worked for them for one whole day. The only reason I applied was because I was born in Mass (but now live in AZ) and it was an editing job, which I wanted to try doing, since I trained MTs for so long and edited their reports, etc. Anyway, the supervisor, Bobbi, was an absolute tyrant nightmare. Training was done over the phone, and she was so nasty and bitter, she made you feel like you had never done a thing in the medical field ever before. For example, I was not following what she was talking about as far as her formatting statements, and she was going on like, what are you talking about???!!!  I had to take a Valium and Rolaids, and then she told me to go ahead and transcribe some reports.......I have been doing transcription over 20-years, and wanted to just edit. Well, she said she was going out for the evening, but there should be no problem with the system and sending the reports on after I transcribed them. Well, there sure was. I contacted the lady that was her assistant, and SHE ragged on me for contacting her. I said, 'sorry, I can't send the reports. Something is wrong with the system, so I am just going to email them to you, so you know they have been done at least. The next morning I woke up and emailed Bobbi that I am not right for this job. Nobody is. That has been years ago, and amazingly she cannot hold on to anybody for that Editor job. It was so bad, I cannot remember the name of the company - Maybe something like Infomatics, or something. She was an absolute horror. Don't work for her. You will not be happy........
Deb
QA at 2 cents per line...
 Is this fair pay? Tomorrow I have an interview with a company that pays 2 cents a line for proofreading. This seems a bit low, but I dont have anything to compare it to. This might be a good opportunity to learning something new and get some experience in QA - since it seems like QA might be the way to stay in this industry a bit longer with all of the offshoring and VR now.
6 cents a line!?!?!
I have almost seven years experience and some people have the nerve of offering 6 cpl IC status. I think that is crazy. Even if it is the same doctors and no ESLs. I have worked for a couple of places where I make 8 cpl and have the same doctors and no ESLs. I could understand if I were a newby or I tested for them and did bad. They never even tested me. They just send me an email stating what they offer.
at least 4 cents a line
I got my first editing job for 4 cents per line. 2 cents is slave labor.
3 cents per line
Are you sure they didn't mean 3 cents per line added to 7.5 cents per line?
Their ad says 6 to 9 cents per line; not 6 to 8 (nm)
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I get 3-1/2 cents per line..nm
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8 cents a line...
I regularly see people posting that 0.08/line is very low pay. I have only been paid by the line for the past 2 years...before that I was paid hourly and worked for a hospital. When I decided to work at home and saw that I could expect to get paid 7.5 to 8 per line...I thought that was decent. I regularly type between 200 and 300 lines per hour...so even at my minimum that is $16/hour....I can't make that at Burger King.
6.5 cents a line?!?!?!
No wonder Spheris doesn't give a rip about keeping their top-notch employees.
And why should they care that MTs with decades of experience are walking away in droves, when they can just get some newbie to work for peanuts?
No offense to you personally, but the MTs who are willing to work for next to nothing are driving the entire MT profession down the drain.
I started 23 years ago at 8.5 cents a line.
If we keep devaluing ourselves, how do we expect MTSOs to place any value in us either?
'Nuff said.
6.5 cents per line
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only 6 cents per line
You probably should try to get your own accounts, by calling doctors and/or putting an ad on MTStars like I did with my resume and my specialties, because doctors' staff do look at it. I should know, I am doing a major account because of it. I wish you the best.
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