But you see, that's the problem. The lower wages go in the US, (sm)

• My idea on what the U.S. should do about offshoring work of ALL kinds... (s/m) - My 2 cents worth!
  • bay area MT - stephanie
    • I just got a call from a doc today that... - I'm in CA too.
      • bay area MT . . . sm - stephanie
  • Offshoring is just a symptom of the world "flattening"...it's not going to go away - 2BaDinosaur or Not 2B
    • You're probably right. Plus we're losing our percentage of good people by .... (sm) - My 2 Cents
    • Prophetic words I am afraid. - CMT-me
      • The problem is, even those who learn are being left behind! (sm) - My 2 Cents
    • It they can't type a grammatically correct sentence, it doesn't matter how many degrees they h - nm
      • Now MT companies in India have control over the work produced. Quality is much - better. Have to agree with above post.
        • The quality I see coming out of Pakistan and Egypt still bites the big one. - nm
  • These companies often pay big bucks to support congressmen. Not likely congress will want to make - companies unhappy with big tax. nm
    • Exactly, we need to vote them out of office. (nm) - That's what we can do
    • Boy, you nailed it. This is - none
  • You're forgetting ALL the stuff you CAN buy because.... - SM
    • But you see, that's the problem. The lower wages go in the US, (sm) - My 2 Cents
    • Regarding widgets - mt1313
    • You're forgetting all the stuff you can't buy when you're UNEMPLOYED! - sm
      • I don't know what part of the country... - SM
        • It appears that each time you changed jobs, you went (sm) - Hmmm
        • Oh good grief. (nm) - McDonald's anyone?
  • Ditto here - wrkn4pnuts
  • I agree! (nm) - :::nodding head:::

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have. This situation is getting extremely serious for people that need to make a living. What a shame.

Aargh.  It happened all day yesterday.  When I brought in text that was all caps

IMPRESSION:

and had lower case on keyboard (as always do), it reverses keyboard commands.  This is driving me c-r-a-z-y.

Last year had small MTSO two part-time IC's working for me, worked as employee parttime in clinic.  Worked 50 hours per week.  Made -- myself not counting what my IC's brought in -- $62 K.  Starting June 1st, quit the employee position -- divorce attorney fees paid off, no IC's and keeping my 4 accounts,  will work 25 to 28 hours per week and make approximately 40K from these four accounts per year.  If I get stuck and need more will do overflow for another MTSO.   But too many headaches and time to take some time for myself.  Looking forward to it.

Patti

Many companies now only want to pay 6.5 to 8 CPL.  This is even for seasoned MTs.  Even ICs are not offered much more compensation.  I have friends working at WalMart making more than some MTs.  If you type 200 LPH at 7 cpl that is $14.00 an hour, but the health insurance is very expensive at these companies.  You must have over 98% on QA scores, but they don't want to pay more for quality and experience.  Plus many jobs are IC and you have higher taxes.  I feel that wages have been falling steadily in the past years and continue to fall.  No wonder there is a shortage of experienced MTs (so I hear).  More likely it is a shortage of experienced MTs that want to work for such low wages and no raises in the future.

While I do agree that there is a vast majority of MTs who are of extremely poor quality, there also are very high-quality, well-seasoned MTs like myself who are tired of making the same wages we made 10-15 years ago.  If there is such a discrepancy in our work quality and ethics, these corporations (who, by the way, are not slacking at all in their 6-figure income pockets!!!!) should pay MTs based on quality and experience, not just experience alone. 

IS ANYONE OUT THERE BESIDES ME INTERESTED IN FORMING A NATIONAL MT UNION SO WE CAN GET BACK THE DIGNITY WE HAVE LOST?

I remain,

tired

How much do you think you would need to make a good living.  Meaning enough to cover all bills, enough to put some away for a rainy day, and enough to play, like dinners, hobbies, maybe a weekend getaway twice a year.  Be realistic.  I'm thinking for me, since i'm single, 50k a year. 

Second question.  If you hadnt gotten trapped in MT, what profession do you see yourself in maybe even earning way more than you can imagine, doing what you love?  For me, it would be psychotherapist. 

anyone???  ANYONE ???

Medical transcription is not your field.  We work for slave wages and have to compete with offshore transcriptionists who work for next to nothing. 

You will need to have an extensive medical knowledge, be willing to constantly purchase new equipment and reference books, and for all of that you get paid worse than a Wal-Mart greeter.  Wages consistently have been going down, not up. 

If you have a bachelor's degree, I would look into other fields if I were you. 

The only way I would recommend this field to someone is if they are handicapped or have an ill child or something that forces them to work from home.  Aside from that, I wouldn't recommend it. 

Maybe whoever comes up with these figures is counting in the savings of not driving to work and buying office attire, the tax write-offs of having a home office, etc.  Then they lump it all together and come up with that figure?

Or else they have multiple jobs and work 7 days a week and that's total income.

Or maybe the CEO's came up with the figure that that's what an MT would make if the service wasn't playing the middleman.  Maybe that's how much they actually make off each MT a year.

Don't even listen to people trying to sell you a class, study for something with a future.

I did formal training and MT was pretty good for a while, but now I wouldn't recommend this career to my worst enemy!