I'm sorely underpaid, just as I suspected.
Posted By: Meghan on 2005-10-15
In Reply to: I too am not paid by the line and I do NOT type. I do QA. There is a reason for QA because - QA specialist
Grrrr....
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Phys database sorely lacking SM
and the rest of it is okay, but certainly not almost $200 okay.
You seem sorely underqualified to run your own business. Stick to being an employeed. nm
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Yes, then. You are way underpaid in my opinion.
If you compare your reports to what you would get paid on a 65-char. line, you are getting less than 6 cpl. This is very low for someone with your experience, especially given that you have been with this company for 5 years. It is most definitely time to ask for a raise!
way underpaid...you might as well be a clerk at 711...sm
Sorry to say and no offense to you personally, but any experienced MT accepting these wages is severely impacting this profession. If you owned a business, wouldn't you rather pay someone $8.50 an hour? This is disgraceful and an insult to any experienced MT. I have seen MTs work for this wage, but unfortunately 99% of them produce garbage, and then require someone paid at top wage to edit the report. EXPERIENCED MTs need to refuse these jobs, and let the companies hire someone who feels $8.50 an hour is a fair wage, and watch their clients drop like flies, or have an Editor fix everything. I've always said, there is no replacement for a multi-specialty experienced MT who works for a company and requires very little editing. You either know your stuff or you don't. If you know your stuff, you will make a profit for the company you work for. It's as simple as that. The companies who think that hiring ILPs and new MTs and paying them slave wages, will certainly be one of those companies that will not be in existent a few years down the road. Let's get real people!
Help me figure out if I am underpaid!
I am paid by the hour and not by the line and I have no idea how many lines I edit per hour, but I think I may be underpaid for my experience. I have been a hospital Transcriptionist for 5 years, I edit VR 3/4 of the time and type 1/4 of the time. My paycheck after a full 40 hour week after taxes but before any deductions is $865. To put things into perspective, I absolutely love my job, I work from home and love my shift, my boss is great, fantastic benefits and a ton of vacation time. But, I have to pay the bills. When I look for other jobs paid by the line I have no idea how to tell if I will be making more or less money. For those of you paid by the line...how does this biweekly paycheck match up?
Just as I suspected! Thanks so much! nm
I suspected this
I had this problem a few years ago - I switched to a split keyboard and didn't have any more trouble... until just the last week or so... now, I'm getting that old familiar pain. . not sure what to do at this point. . .
i suspected as much
Thanks for the info. I kinda figured as much, but I wanted real live opinions. It's disappointing, isn't it? The hospitals were going to voice recognition or selling out to companies who were off-shoring (or both) when I left - with little consolation OR compensation to those of us on this side of the pond. It's a shame when so many of us are/were so dedicated.
As I suspected! Like myself sm
everyone thinks the BOS is a crock! I wonder if the folks who wrote this piece of crap even know their own rules? When AAMT first started (either very late 70s or early 80s) I thought it was going to a REAL professional organization. As it turned out it is nothing but a money grubber that changed its name and sold us all down the road to off shoring. I haven't for years and NEVER EVER will give another dime to this organization. Neither will I work for a company that uses it for "the standard" in MTing.
Thanks for all your comments and keep em coming.
an overworked, underpaid, still expected to meet production go to person.
I hate the ones where child abuse is suspected or
the injury could have been avoided entirely if the parents hadn't been so stupid, like a young child without a carseat in an MVA. I used to hate the death summaries at my old job, especially on young people.
A good friend died of cancer that I suspected years before
because of a test he had and he had asked me to get a copy of, which I did, but not being "qualified", it said possible metastasis, I just told him I couldn't get it for some reason, and to talk to his doctor. His doctor, for some strange reason said it was "normal". I then asked him to get a copy of it himself, but he didn't. My husband told him to go to another doctor. It took several years, but he eventually was diagnosed with cancer after having a seizure, (it had spread to his brain) and he died a few months later.
The bottom line is, we're really not qualified to diagnose or advise people. I do feel terrible guilt for it, (you should've seen me at the funeral) but there's nothing we can do. If a doctor doesn't diagnose something properly, even if WE KNOW, there's still nothing we can do about it. We don't have the capacity to treat them and nobody is going to listen to us.
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