then why are you asking about the Back Suite at .02 a line?? :/

• How do these MT schools get away with saying you can make $40,000 per year. That is a fake - DeeAnn
  • Because they can dig up enough liars to prove it. - noname
  • my first year I made 16k. Doubled that second year. Going on year 6 with (sm) - cali girl
    • Pay - Ididit
      • 40+ yearly - anon
  • Can? Well, maybe. Statistics shows the average is much lower. nm - MT
  • "Can" and "will" are two different things. Just like "up to" can mean zero! nm - nm
  • Its sad that we dont believe MTs can make good money at this job.... - HappyMT
    • I am glad to hear that a lot of money can be made with MT work. This gives me hope for the future. - Sue
  • Well, it's not fake by any means but it is not - Busy MT'ing
  • Well I make about 60,000 on one account.. sm - GA MT
    • ROFLMBFAO........nm........... - $60,000 with TWO typos in your post???
      • Geez that is a bit extreme - Wow
      • In defense of poster with typos...Sometimes when you use so many expanders(fortunately = fty for me - cali girl (sm)
        • I think it is the mix up of your and you're - nope
        • that's so true! - regressing
          • oh dude, I totally write like I have Parkinson's... bad micrographia. nm - cali girl
      • I think a lot of the high $$ MTs - Well
        • it has been my experience that many - average producer
        • I made over 40K as an MT with 100% QA scores. SM - Now QA
          • Forgot to say that was with a national. NM - Now QA
      • In response to you..... - $$
      • I kinda had that same thought, but I tried to stifle it. - am trying to be nice for the new year
      • 2 typos - me too
        • There is no QA on your own accounts. YOU are QA. - doesn't matter
          • called big bucks usually do not....sm - yeah well peeps making these so...
    • then why are you asking about the Back Suite at .02 a line?? :/ - good grief...
      • psychologists make $60,000/yr....nm - don't believe EVERYTHING you read...
        • Hate to burst your bubble but psychs do NOT make that! - LOL
          • Where'd you get your info? Husband made 63,000+ as a truck driver. nm - Smiley
            • SIL is one. Low 40s. - LOL
        • I'm not a psychologist and I made nearly that last year. - Working Smarter not Harder
        • Did you notice that the poster said that was - with her OWN accounts? I too
          • Read MSG - $$
        • There are MTs making this type of money.. It's just too bad that you cannot fathom it! nm - FastRadMT
          • You tell 'em FastRad!! sm - RadGal
    • I agree - fuzz5
    • I wonder if an MT can make as much money as a RN nurse? Curious about that - DeeAnn
  • Certainly not realistic for a newbie, but - OP Queen
    • question to OP queen - mt

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1600 is not a fair minimum requirement.  Sure you can achieve 1600, it shouldn't be the required minimum.

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.

Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 

There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 

I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 

Good luck to you!

happier.  I am on a different account then the first time and it is as if it is a different company.  I have a great lead who leaves us alone most of the time but is there when I need her.  It showed me that you can have a different experience within the same company.

I have to say that in the few weeks since they have the new office, it is much more organized probably because there are a lot of people there all the time.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the new HR manager who was HR at a hospital, got my questions answered about insurance as I am going to full time and had a live voice pick up the phone.

Not all change is bad.  This is one company that has changed for the better. 

if there seven words on a line.

or two

one

or a full line of typing...all of the companies that I have worked for define a gross line as 1 inch margins, 12 pt courier font....does not matter what we type in margins or font.....we convert all reports to the 1 inch margins and courier 12 font and then count the lines.  not the blank spaces between the lines.

Hope this helps.

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a line just has one character on it, it is considered a line.   If you are getting 6 cpl per gross that is approximately equal to 8 cpl based on 65 characters.  Sometimes the font on a gross line can make it be less than that though. 

If anyone wanst to get through to me while I'm working, they have my cell phone number.

And, as I said, some accounts are using wav files -- no doubt soon all of the accounts will convert.  Hope so ... would make it easier (less expensive) to work when traveling.  :-)

Lots of good companies out there -- hope you find one that fits :)

signed off the report I was typing.  Those lines didn't add immediately, but sometimes they do that.  What concerns me is that when I signed that job off and the next one came up, not only were the other lines not added in but they were LESS than they were before I signed off previous job.

I thought I noticed this happening the other day, but figured I just wasn't paying attention.  Today I definitely noticed it.  For some reason it changed it's mind and took 8 lines off my line count.  What the heck? 

Am not really ecstatic with the way things are going anyway  and then this confuses me. 

Please, someone have a realistic explanation so I don't feel paranoid and cheated here.