Very good...very good answer. Right on the money! (nm)

• Is it worth being an IC at 7.8 cpl? - NM
  • NO! - XMQ
  • MTs have been responsible for their own DEMISE. (sm) - chrissy
    • Me thinks you are way off base. - see message
  • 7.8 as an IC - Gr8tfulMT
  • What is your experience and knowledge worth? sm - MTIC24
  • Try being IC, try being employee. Then decide - which is best for you. nm
  • If below post was about that MTs experience as - IC, she had bad advice on what IC was about.
  • what do you need to MAKE per hour? take that x 3 and that's your ans. (sm) - chrissy
    • Very good...very good answer. Right on the money! (nm) - elevalady
      • No, it's not. Poster says nothing about deduct. - and her tax estimates are WAY off. nm
        • I'm repeating what my accountant told me. Go argue w/him I guess. - chrissy
          • And you would have paid that much as an employee - Patti
          • Not all accounts are good accounts. One - problem is your "piddly little deduct." SM
            • good for you - chrissy
              • Yes, good for her!! - sm
                • Only 50%, 1/2 of SS is deductible - Patti
              • The BTK killer was also respected member of - his community. Doesn't mean a whole lot. nm
              • What may be drawback to U, others see as - advantage. Just matter of what U want for U.
    • What ungodly taxes? And what overhead? - SM
    • You have those if you are an employee - Patti
      • hidden costs by being an IC - chrissy
        • Sorry disagree - Patti
          • I agree with Patti...sm - Diana
          • So true. Agree to each his own but benefits of - IC so great, dont know why others deny it. nm
            • Envy? Bitterness? Can't hang with the big dogs? - sm
              • What??? This makes no sense. - nm
        • The match that employer would pay just 7.xx%. - What you pay for own insurance is write-off.
  • Bottom line, if your time is adequately - compensated by size of paycheck, is worth it.
  • You don't give enough information for ANYONE to answer this post intelligently. - sm
  • You have to decide that for yourself. Write-offs, - time flexibility, being own boss,what is worth?

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Are there ANY companies out there who will pay you what you are worth?  I've got 5+ years experience and only getting 7 to 8.5 cpl offered.  It's not a question of whether or not my work is good or bad, it is definitely good.  I have read where so many of you are making much more money than that and I would like to know WHERE to find such a job?  I would even be happy getting paid by the hour at this point (if it's enough that is).  I simply want paid what I'm worth for all my hard work! TIA!!!

Would you care to share your cents-per-line and lines-per-hour with us?  Roughly?

It would help alleviate the anxiety about it for some of us if we can hear from the horse's mouth (no insult intended) how this can be a good living for us.  Especially when there are so many things to slow us down like ESLs and poor dictators and bad sound. 

Thank you.

I usually average between $15-25 an hour doing VR. That is enough for me. I think it helps if you have companies that pay for footers, headers, spaces etc.. Good luck.

penned in at the moment because of unethical practices of MQ,

but in essence you have "given" us to your competition.  Your competition may have

been weakened by your siphoning off of MTs to work for MQ for a while

mostly because you became a monopoly, but with all the manpower

going to your broken competition and hospitals who are tired of being

manipulated with smoke and mirror business, see how good your name smells in

the medical field in about a year. 

The resumes are flying like kites out there right now, can you see them?

Those are not clouds in your coffee those are your livelihood in the medical

field going up up up and away.

Enjoy your card game now.  I think the slight of hand way of doing business

has just about seen its day. 

Any company that cannot ever give how a line is counted and show

the method an MT is paid - so that the MT can double check her "billing" is

not an ethical institution.  We don't work for the suprise we get in the bank at the end of 2 weeks of chasing work around your company,  we work for the

money.  We are business people just like you.  You, MQ, would not do business without a clear contract and yet you have expected MTs to

work on a line count that is by YOUR FORMULA which you can't share!  How insane is that?

but I live in the northeast and not much need for that where I live.  I also live in a small town so that limits my options.  I have spent the last couple of years as a substitute teacher to supplement my MT job and just completed 4-1/2 months as a long term sub which I enjoyed and was a change of pace from MT.  The only problem is as a sub or ed tech you only get paid during the school year so I would have to keep my MT job for summers and school vacations.  With the way things are going in the MT world I hate to rely solely on that.  I don't want to find myself without any job whatsoever.   

Thanks for all the responses.