I LIVE IN NEW YORK, BUT...SM

right now work as a ful-time employee status.  Do I understand your post to mean that I, as a New York resident, cannot work as IC if I chose to?  Thx.

• Big on demands, but low on pay - sm
  • I don't know if this has already been mentioned here, but - mt
    • years experience sm - NEMT
    • I don't understand this post. I have over 10 yrs experience - Do you mean they're paying too low for that amt
      • Yes, definitely paying too low for that experience, and - mt
  • That's the medical transcription industry - in a NUTSHELL.
  • Why - Ghost
    • Check the MT jobs available. Nowadays 8 or 9 cents a line is considered good for experienced MTs. - That was considered good 10-15 years ago, not so g
  • BTDT. They expected a heck of a lot from the MT for that kind of pay - sm
    • Low pay - NEMT
      • These days it's ALL companies. 9 cpl isn't - enough to live on, and why anyone - s/m
        • Yes it is. - lk
          • How many years experience do you have? If over 10, - don't you think you deserve higher pay?
            • I have 3 years experience. - lk
              • Just wait until you start racking up some more years experience - and your pay consistently goes down...sm
                • Hey, Debbie Downer! - lk
            • I have over 30 years. Not only same pay as newbies, - but below India's (in buying-power). nm
      • LOW PAY - gatoreye21
        • No one is charging 15-20cpl anymore. Offshore has taken that away. sm - MTSO
          • VA accts transcribed offshore - moon1010
          • THAT'S TWICE AS MUCH AS ...SM - Bayou MT
            • There's a lot of hard work that goes into - Backwards typist
              • These are administrative tasks that - they get paid to do by paying us a low rate!
                • the same is true for MTSOs as MTs - cjyt
                  • Thank you, that is certainly constructive. How about 17 years, you want me to just change to accomm - digging in
                • I'm not saying "poor MTSO". What - Backwards typist
                  • Former MTSO - Long time MT
              • attitude adjustment is needed NOW (sm) - moon1010
                • I agree with you there, but according to - Backwards typist
                  • We would like to make some "cents" too! - digging in
          • I think it's about time we took it BACK. - US companies rip off their own workers.
            • If you figure out a way for that to happen, let us know. Unfortunately, most politicians sm - MTSO
              • You are so right, and it's such a welcome change - I agree! Strength in numbers
              • I LIVE IN NEW YORK, BUT...SM - HeidiHo
                • The state told us that MTs are employees because we they work in our system and do the same work as - MTSO
              • It is not MT versus MTSO we have a bottom line too, & right now it is - - digging in
              • I hope your 70 MTs know how fortunate they are (sm) - sm
                • How about a simultaneous..... - SHErlock
                  • I'm game. And I could use a vacation, even if - Swiss cheese

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and say when I visited, "She's from Massatoothetts where they thay 'Pahk the cah in Havaad Yaad.' "   (Note: My relatives have no teeth, hence the lisp.)

Cue the banjo's.

I grew up in NYC..   multicultural, diverse,  many different neighborhoods. I love NYC  . Rude New Yorkers are a stereotype.   All kinds of people here.  Visit it sometime.

Love your posts, though... ths is an MT board - active, retired, former, and anyone who's thinking about becoming one.

I go to my mom's and flip through and don't miss it at all.  All of her stations and hardly anything on to watch.

All local wages are low. I tried the school district, $6.50/hr; the local banks, around $7.50 - $8.00; and even considered traveling 45 minutes to the nearest industrial area but it wasn't worth it for the $9.50 an hour they wanted to pay. The hospital in that area paid the whopping $8.50/hr for MTs.

I ended up lucking out and getting a job with the DoD, Army. Luckily, they have put us on the same pay scale as New York City, so I get paid well for the area. I don't know how families here do it, my salary alone is more than what most families with 2 people working locally make, and I have much better benefits. Got paid fairly well for the area when working MT from home, but DH is also self-employed and we needed the benefits desperately. My benefit package is probably worth 2/3 - 3/4 of my salary if I add it all up.