mine called right at 15-minute mark
Posted By: almost on 2008-06-25
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Isn't that weird? I gave mine the heads up, too, and no one ever called!!
Which I wished I had known, or I would never have given the heads up! Ha!!
The last 3 I applied for called ALL of mine! I did give 'em a head's up, tho'. :) nm
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mine called during a time I had NOT given; then emailed with No Answer, So Go On-Line And Test;
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1.70 regular minute, 2.25 stat per minute. sm
I do all cardiology.
On The Mark
Does anyone have any experience with this company I have heard many things. Some people say pay is not regular, but you always get paid. Others tell me they have had to wait 3 months or more to get their pay.
I would appreciate any feedback.
just mark each pedal, so you know which is which. nm
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On-The-Mark Transcription
Does anyone know anything about this company? They are in Phoenix. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
Why do they gauge by $900 mark, not lines? sm
Isn't that strange? Maybe other people do this and I'm just not aware. Also why does Transcend refer to MT's as MLS? Just curious :)
Is the Mark job (editscript) one of the Focus jobs?
where you can only do 5 reports a day and all that stuff? one of the small ones that focus farms out to?
Mark bill and envelope "CONFIDENTIAL,"
address to doctor personally with a handwritten note attached to your bill stating, Will you please have someone take care of this? This happened to me. The office manager was embezzling funds which he knew nothing about it until I brought my bill to his attention. My bill has been paid immediately in the 15+ years since then. Good luck.
Mark off a 65-char line. Then take random
sentences from your reports. Then count the spaces. Or you could put it in Word and use the tools to average it out. The average of spaces per 65-char line is more than 10. Try it yourself rather than just believing what you've been told.
Not that I feel I need to defend myself, but I just passed my 2-month mark,
so you would be thinking incorrectly. I am a fairly new hire, but I do have 18 years of MLS experience. I must say, am baffled by your antagonism.
Goodness...read the original post again..you are way off the mark.
Sounds like you have the problem.....and are very willing to attack, gut and spit out.
Of course I could be wrong.
if only a punctuation mark in an email address is wrong,
the email cannot be delivered to the inbox It has to be 'exactly' the same email address, exactly to the smallest detail.
Fishy, fishy....
I bet you 1 million $$ you won't find one on mine. Mine is
2 years old and it does not have a 9-pin serial port, nor does it have a game port. I have used both ports on other computers so I know what both ports look like. I also have a company provided computer and it does have the ports on it.
They have called me twice and I have not yet called them back
Per your recommendation, I just might. Thank you.
I called and called and e-mailed my STM. When that got no
results I went over her head. Got another account, but with 3 accounts still not enough work to get in more than 20 hours/week. I worked a shift that was part 2nd/part 3rd. Some days OT was offered, but then there wouldn't be work the next day.
No one called you a joke, just called the post a joke because
we all know better, but you're entitled to your opinion. You're the one insulting saying those of us who don't like SS probably couldn't cut it and that is the reason for our complaints. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who ever worked for SS to agree with you about how wonderful they are. They aren't getting new accounts, yet they always have an ad running - umm, let me think why that is.
per minute
I get paid per minute of dictation. $1.00 to 1.35 per minute. 100-120 minutes in an 8 hour shift is average or 16-20 minutes of dictation per hour.
pay by the minute
I also used to work this way. I worked in house by the hour and we had a quota of dictated minutes we were supposed to meet. Then we started doing it at home and were compensated by the minute. It was awesome! Unfortunately they went with voice recognition and it came to a tragic end. I still miss it. I get paid by the line now and make probably a third less at least than back then. So very sad. Anyone have any idea if this company is hiring for radiology and what they pay per minute? TIA.
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too heated.
If pay comes out to 1.00, or less per minute is very low...sm
1.25 and up would be good pay per minute... and 200 per day if quite a bit to get through on an average. Good luck!
Pay per minute...
I work for a hospital that pays us per minute of dictation. It is the entire dictation, whether the doc is sitting thinking, talking to someone else in the room or whatever, a 14 minute report is billed as a 14 minute report. The pay scale I make is $1.30 per minute after 450 minutes, under 450 minutes $1.25 per minute. I am sure the hospital itself charges more than that per minute, so I guess it would depend on whether you have your own account or are considering working for a hospital or other company.
Pay per minute...
It is absolutely more lucrative than by the line for me anyway. I almost went bankrupt working for 8 cpl.
More like $1.00 - to 1.25 per minute
Keep in mind the 3 x rule: For every minute of dictation, it takes roughly 3 minutes to transcribe. So if you want to earn $20/hr (example) you have to charge $1.00 per minute. If you factor in even 5 minutes and hour for taxes/interruption/breaks etc., you need to bump it to $1.25 to clear $20/hr.
It says pay is 0.85 per minute.
Seems kind of low to me.
By the minute vs. cpl.......
I was at a meeting the other day where 2 docs were discussing paying their MTs by the minute versus by the line. It was the first I, personally, had heard of such a thing. The more I thought about it, the more appealing it sounded to me to be paid by the minute, particularly after I had to listen to a resident literally eat their way through a 37 minute dictation, which ultimately yielded me only about 62 lines. I was furious! I would have at least been paid for my time on that report had I been paid by the minute to transcribe it. I am sure it all balances out in the end, whether one is paid by the line or the minute, considering some docs fly through their dictation without even taking a breath or bothering to enunciate or structure an intelligent sentence. I would love to hear from any MTs who are, in fact, being paid by the minute.
Pay per minute
I would appreciate information from anyone who is compensated per minute of dictation. Thank you.
$1.00 per minute
I have worked like this before. The operative reports you get will be between 0.9 to 2.0 minutes and there will be 30-40 lines for one report. You will go broke.
minute pay
I once worked for a company that paid by the dictated minute and I really liked it. Seemed like a good way to pay. The company had a pay scale so that the more minutes you typed per week, the more per minute you got. The bottom line, of course, is how much will we be paid per line or per minute. 
That's too low for per-minute pay.
Think about this: A 3-minute report, say you get 1-1/2 to 2 pages. They would pay you $3. There could be 50-80 lines, which at 8 cpl would be $4 to $6.40. A dollar a dictated minute is much too low.
Not at $1/minute.
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by the minute...
i do legal by the minute and it generally takes 2 to 3 times the amount of time. So if you get an hour of dictation, it's probably going to take you 2 1/2 to 3 hours to do it, depending on the dictator and sound quality. Could be more, but not usually less than double the time... hope this helps!
per minute pay
Try and figure it out this way....60 minutes of dictation will take apx 3-4 hours typing...so hopefully that will help figure out per hour.
That is low 1.00/minute is even low..
which would be 60.00 for an hour of dictation..
Hey wait a minute....
This all originally started way down below with a positive post about Transcend in answer to a question about the company. Then, the naysayers hop on and start blah blah blahing all over the place. So, I believe the trouble started at your door.
Pay by dictated minute.
What is a reasonable pay for dictated minute? What is reasonable to expect to be transcribed minutes of dictation in 8-hour shift? Anyone know?
Okay, wait a minute
Well, you know, now that I check out my first apology, I see I didnt apologize before to you, just JMO. I thought I had apologized to both of you. So, I am also sorry if I said anything that hurt your feelings. And thank you for your apology also.
Now wait a minute...
I am management remember? not an MT!
Radiology per minute
I get paid per minute and was wondering if anyone could tell me some companies that pay by the dictated minute for radiology and have benefits. I am happy with the amount of money I am making and the company but would really like a job with benefits.
Thanks
I'd hire you in a NY minute. nm
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What is the going rate per minute?
 I have no idea what to even charge! Can someone help? Thanks!!!!!!!!
Per minute rate
What is the pay range for per minute of transcription? I see more and more people are wanting to pay by the minute instead of the line. Thanks.
Maybe they meant PER MINUTE?
Otherwise - ?????
Hang on a minute...
I'd like to address something that's really bothering me as I see it expressed so frequently -- It's what I call THE GRATITUDE TRICK.
First, I am not trying to find fault with what you wrote. You sound like a fabulous mom and a very dedicated MT. I really admire you for the sacrifices you've made to accomplish what you have -- and that goes for everyone out there in the MT world who has done the same. I mean this sincerely. I am amazed at what some of you have managed to do and how you continue the struggle now. Hats off to you all!!!
But I have to question why do MTs have to make such sacrifices in the first place??? It sounds to me like this has been the case for many years now. If we are the professionals we claim to be, we deserve the same standard of living that any other professional gets to have who works out of their home. The perks go across the board for everyone who works from home, no matter what profession--gas savings, wardrobe, etc. We are no different. This aspect of what our job is worth income-wise is only a small part of the equation. The difference for us is that we are not fairly compensated for our work as other professionals are for theirs. THAT is what sets us apart, not the perks.
I think this is a way the services have used to keep us in submission for years, and it's dirty playing. I do not feel grateful to my employer to be able to work from home. My gratitude goes to God for the technology that allows me to do this. Heck, I'm saving them money in overhead from working from home, buying and maintaining my own equipment and reference materials, paying my own Internet service fee, etc. No, THEY are making money OFF OF US. Yes, businesses do that. They have to earn a profit. But it is wrong for them to tell us pretty much to go away and be quiet and count our blessings because they are so kind as to let us work from home, thus making us feel that we should be ashamed for wanting to be paid more. This is nothing but a mind game. They are using this way of responding to us to shut us up and we're falling for it. Next, it will be but at least we hired you and didn't send the work to India! Little by little we are being demeaned by them as they reduce benefits, demand more in production, etc. all the while telling us how lucky we are to be able to work from home and we're falling for it.
If our profession (and I keep using the word profession because that is what it is) goes down the drain because of technology, etc. then we can't control that. But let's not help it along by buying into a mindset that says we're not valuable. Anyone who has the knowledge and skills to do this job well should see their worth reflected in their paychecks, bottom line. All the other stuff is just icing on the the cake.
I think we as a body of professionals and as individuals need to have a much greater sense of self-respect, self-worth to begin with. We are not the cast-offs of the working world! If you can do this job well, you are no idiot. And all of us know, this is anything but an easy job. Many of you have invested most if not all of your working lives doing transcription. Companies should be grateful to YOU for working for them. A qualified MT only increases the company's image.
Now how to become fairly compensated is a whole 'nother can of worms given what we are up against today. But I think we need to start valuing ourselves more before we expect to be valued by those for whom we work. This gratitude to our employer trick they use on us has got to be exposed for the dirty trick that it is and it needs to go!!
I think a lot of our frustration with this profession comes from such mind games. If you can keep your employees confused, if you can keep them from feeling they have no right to complain, you've got it made as an employer. They're under your control. But in the end it weakens employee morale which results in frequent employee turnover which results in loss of production while new people learn the accounts, etc. so it really backfires on them and is a stupid (to put it nicely) way to run a business. You can run it right into the ground this way.
Even the benefits packages are somewhat of a joke if you can't afford the insurance. I'm sure the companies have ways to write off those expenses to their own benefit. That's another trick they use on us. My dental insurance won't pay the rent. Pay me a decent enough salary and I'll get my own dental insurance!
If we have any hope of turning our situation around, we need to be able to see the tactics that are being used against us. Just trying to point out some red flags here as I see them.
I saw it on the *other board* just a minute ago.nm
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Loving every minute of it.
Been there for almost a year. Out of work only about 5 hours totally in that year. Doubled and tripled my income over my last job. Once I get my Expander to full workability, I should do even better.
I plan to retire from there in about 15 years.
Companies want your every minute for themselves.
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Pay is by the minute of dictation.
There is a company on the Job Seekers board that states that the pay is by the minute of dictation. I have never heard of this, has anyone else?
No, I have not regretted it for a minute (sm)
The only thing I can say I sort of miss is having the PTO, but the flexibility I now have makes up for that in the long run. As you say, with MQ I was working harder and my check kept getting smaller and smaller. After over a year of repeatedly requesting a raise and being ignored, then the July 1 changes including the last ASR pay cut, the QASAR debacle, and the cesspool, etc., I decided that, after 10 years, it was time to go. No regrets at all.
I am paid per minute
This is the first company I have worked for that pays that way. It seems fair enough, although that is largely dependent on the dictator! There are few I transcribe for and it takes me forever to do their reports, so at those times the per minute compensation isn't so fair, but it all averages out I suppose.
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