This really is pathetic. 5 years ago I started out with .07 and they are still only paying that?

• what is the average line rate going ladies? - Curious
  • Don't know what the average is, but I am getting 19 cpl IC status. nm - Another hospital mt
  • 0.12/cpl, macros count as 2 characters, backspacing is given to us as 1 character. No spaces. Aut - every character.
  • Making 0.12 per line with my own clients. (nm) - Peanuts
  • This really is pathetic. 5 years ago I started out with .07 and they are still only paying that? - Outrageous.
  • 18 cpl straight from a hospital working at home. nm - hospital MT
    • I would say that if you're really getting that much then....sm - Leery one
      • MTs at my hospital tried to say 20 cpl was average. The director is no fool. - I'd say take less
      • Nay, my back is covered, don't worry about me! nm - hospital MT
        • WATCH YOUR BACK - MTness
          • Thanks for your concern. sm - HMT
    • I get paid 0.15/line - Iowa MT
  • I get .135/.13/.16/.195 direct from hospitals or doctor offices. - skip the middleman..you make more $$ nm
    • Unfortunately, some of us need benefits. - MT
  • Mine currently pays .13 - Somewhere in PA
    • Where can you get paid .13/line? - geni
      • Thats why I left Medquist. I was busting my butt for them - and their measly paycheck
  • How do I know what the line rate is, since it is the co's - line counter!!!
  • I have one @ 0.14, one @ 0.09 and one @ 0.12. SM - Bettanot
    • Anyone care to share name of Company that pays so much? - MT
    • Wow, I don't know anyone paying that much! - MT
  • 10 cpl with spaces. nm - Johnny's Mom
    • Unfortunately, this rate is so 5 years or more ago. - MT
    • I think not - Average being the operative word?
      • Agree with 8 cpl. Look at how many ads still start in the 6 and 7cpl range. nm - sad MT
        • it's sad - me

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as an IC at the local hospital and at first, didn't make much money, but as I got more familiar with the dictators, I could do 150 minutes in 6 1/2 hours. That was a good deal. I left because:

1. I got bored.

2. I worked 7 days a week plus all the holidays.

3. I thought the grass was greener elsewhere. I needed bennies and the hospital, even though my work was good, wouldn't hire me as an employee because then they would lose #2.

I started in a small hospital in the Midwest and spent 6 years there, then moved to the West Coast.  When I started, we had two reference books, Dorland's and the Surgeon's Syllabus (a red much used book).  We were on Royal typewriters, four carbon copies, all colored with different color white-out for each copy.  Our dictation came in on wax records with the stats at the switchboard station.  They would call us when one came in and we would walk down and get it.  They were on lilac wax and the others were on a salmon color.  We had little record players at our desk and we would transcribe the wax records, then put them in a press to take out the grooves and use them over and over.  I loved working there.   We then graduated to the Norelco reel-to-reel, and then to the Dictaphone plastic belts, then the magnetic belts, and then the MT/ST, then the Mag-Card, and finally to the computer, then to the Lanier pop-up tape system, then to the Sony Network, and then to digital voice.  It's been a long joury and I was with one employer for over two decades before being sold to MQ. I had the best boss in the world, generous to a fault, but then MQ came along and offshoring and the MT business went down, down, down. I make half of what I used to and I work twice as hard. Benefits are hard to come by and there is no security.  I long for the old days.

Switched to working for services from home for a while and now I work for the same hospital I started out at, but I work from home now.  So I guess you can say I've come full circle and now I'm back where I started.  I much prefer being an employee of a hospital versus an IC or employee of an MTSO.

It may be that your user profile in EXText is not set up to allow you to add normals.  I've found with services they don't give their MTs a whole lot of freedom with their software.   

and with a really good incentive plan.  I live in the Kansas City area.  $10 seems like a low starting point even with only two years experience which is the usual benchmark for hospital MT jobs. 

It's been my experience that the low end of the pay scale for hospital employed MTs was around $12 an hour.  Also, it's been my experience that the pay offered is usually based on years of experience and how well you perform on the transcription test.

I would say if their pay is that low, they should at least be making it up with incentive and it doesn't sound like they are.

JMO

I work outside the home and I make a good wage/yearly income.  I took up medical transcription on the side in hopes that some day I could work from home.  I have to travel almost an hour to work each way and I live where we have major snow and ice storms and the older I get, the more anxiety I get about driving in this weather.  My husband hasn't been able to find a good job (he works about 30 hours a week at a dead-end job with no benefits) and I have a son in college.  I find that I work all the time with almost no social life.  I also have friends and relatives who seem to be working more than one job either both jobs outside the home or one job outside the home and then doing something on line.  No matter how much I work, I never seem to be able to get ahead and it scares me.  I do not have an extravagent home nor do I drive a newer vehicle.   What is wrong with us that we have to work more than one job to make a living and how am I going to face retirement?  I am thinking I will have to do medical transcription from home until I can no longer see and just pray that it is still around.  I never in a million years thought that my life would end up like this.  I should have listened to everyone when they said it was just as easy to marry a rich guy as it is a poor one.    

Those poor people need help!  What would you expect them to do?  They have lost EVERYTHING, and many of them didn't have much to begin with.  They can't go back to where they lived.  Most only have the clothes on their backs.  Shame on you.

and expecting extremely experienced MTs, forget it. You're not going to get it.  If, however, you're willing to pay 9 or more cpl then you will find what you're looking for. There ARE experienced MTs out there who will work their fingers to the bone IF they are compensated well and treated with respect.