We're paying 9 cpl and everything transcribed plus spaces is paid for.
Posted By: nm on 2005-11-05
In Reply to: Well.... - Trixi
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They used to not pay for spaces, but a poster here said they are getting spaces paid. Are there 2
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Paying for spaces vs. Not
So, I've been offered a position at .11 cents a line, but they don't pay for spaces. They do, however, have templates set up with lots of headers there that they do pay for. I am currently making 0.95 cents a line and get paid for spaces, but not headers.
What's the bottom line when it comes down to how much you make - anyone know? I can figure this out, but thought if someone had been through this and checked it, it'd be a little easier. Thanks!
I would move on. I think it is so unfair not to be paid for spaces! I think we should get paid
per keystroke, but that'll never happen. I just think that these national companies are going to keep finding ways to cheat us. I found a job working for a hospital as an employee, paid hourly plus incentive, and they let us expand everything! Somebody's gonna have to kill me to make me give up this job. I will never go back to the national's again.
I feel for you though. I know that for us MTs those good jobs are few and far between and some have little choice but to work for the nationals. I just happened to luck into the job I have now. I just applied at the right time.
Good luck to you whatever you decide.
Company not paying for spaces nm
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paying for spaces question, sm
when the company says you get paid for spaces, shouldn't that mean all spaces you type? where i work, we get paid for spaces; however, i noticed recently that in our system when viewing old reports for questions that all the double spaces was changed to single spaces. i am talking about like two spaces between each sentence. i know the system is changing it as i also looked up reports that i, myself, typed and i always double space. not really sure if they are counted in our line counts or not as the system does our line counts, but i am gonna try to play with it and see if i can figure it out.
my question is, is this standard to change the double spaces to single spaces? i am thinking maybe the acct requires that but our specifics say to double space in between sentences. sounds to me like a way to cheat us out of some line count; what do you think?
If the companies are paying for spaces, yes. nm
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MQ not paying for spaces -- just manually counted and it don't add up
anyone know? Just went from straight line count to DQS...
used to type 500 lph, now barely 150 lph....
AND NO COUNT FOR SPACES....
DAMMIT, THAT'S A KEY STROKE
Offered a position paying 9 cents per 65 line without spaces with headers and footers.
Is this a good deal?
Paid for spaces
Was told years ago that the account I was on did not pay for spaces even though the contract I signed as SE said I would be. Was told that we were compensated by being given the headers and footers in our line count (yeah, right). Was then told they didn't want to lose me so if I was totally unhappy to ask my manager for another account which did pay for spaces. I, of course, was told there was no other account available at that time. On some unscientific studying and counting, figured out was losing 13% to 17% of my counts by not getting spaces. This is one of the reasons MQ is being sued by the employees in the lawsuit. Don't believe anything management tells you. Just count them for yourself.
At 9.5 cpl what are you really getting paid without spaces.
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Why spaces are not paid for... sm
I once worked with a Transcriptionist who would pad his reports with huge lines and lines of spaces that would go undetected. He (yes he) would be paid for these elaborate line counts (we had an incentive program). If you adjust the pay rate for characters only with no spaces according to an appropriate line rate, you are assuring yourself of not being cheated by some MT who thinks they can get away with padding spaces into their documents. True story.. now lets see the end of this endless discussion.
Are you sure she gets paid for spaces?
So it would not equal to 7.5 cpl.
paid for spaces
I do get paid for spaces. We take the character count INCLUDING spaces and divide by 5 to get our word count.
I think spaces are paid for. However, there
may only be 1 space in between sentences, which is set in Word. From what I have read, the eScription platform does not pay for selection of demographics, headers, or footers. Many commands are not allowed, such as specific symbols, bold, underline, tabs, and indents, to name a few.
This is how eScription is saving hospitals millions of dollars. Yes, VR is very profitable for hospitals. Of course, that would need to compare the savings to their operating costs. However, They only seem interested in saving TRANSCRIPTION costs! So, the bottom line is, MTs are working harder and harder each year to make a decent wage, while management is working harder each year to trim our lines. This is not the MTSO but the hospital administrators.
I had a physician recently tell me, "Transcription has sunk to the lowest of the lows." I told him, "You only get what you pay for." Pay nothing, get not much in return!
Curious..MQ and spaces...paid or not?
I have read many post from fellow MQers. Some say they get paid for spaces. Some swear they do not. I know I get paid for spaces and have been with them since January, Denver office. For those of you who say they do not get paid for spaces, is this a new phenomenon? What office do you work out of and for how long? Have you copied reports in Word and counted characters and spaces? (I only have 'Works', which only counts characters, but have manually counted spaces and added that to the total characters and have come up with the same count as MQ is paying me. Now, all I have to do is take my character count and add about 22%, which is the percentage of characters that I have found out are spaces. MQ's count is always right on. So, just curious if some are not getting paid for spaces and if they know that FOR SURE! Not getting paid for spaces makes a 22% pay cut! That is a LOT! Now, I am not looking into starting any kind of battle here. But just really am curious if this is the 'wave' of the future with MQ, just certain offices, new hires, or what. Thanks! 
Need feedback on getting paid for spaces vs not....
have an offer from AccuScribe in South Carolina, 9 cpl, but no spaces. Would like to hear opinions please, whether good or bad! TIA!
Working for 9 cpl, not paid for spaces
Does anybody else think this is not good? Working same account I used to do paid for spaces and working harder for same pay. Thinking of moving on.
And they're getting paid for it. We're paying for the sins of our ancestors.
However, my ancestors were murdered and scalped by the Native Americans. It's in the history books even. I expect nothing.
What are you paying your MTs? If you're only paying 7 or 8 cpl
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.
Want to get paid for headers, footers and spaces?
Just in a silly mood.... 
To the "not paid for spaces" question
Why is not being paid for spaces the norm? Don't you have to tap the space bar just as you have to tap a letter key? I don't get this. This is just another way to reduce our income. DON'T ALLOW IT!
i do NOT get paid for spaces, my best friend does.. both out of the same office -- go figure
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What the heck does getting paid by a 55 black character line?? Does this mean without spaces and doe
You just never know if this is a trick to somehow rip you off of lines. I am just very skeptic of it since I have never heard of anyone using this formula before.
They are getting exactly what they're paying for.
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You're getting spaces?????
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Sounds shady to me not to know what you're paying for.
Report to the Better Business Bureau.
If they're of college age & paying for their own way, how will you stop them? You let them go and
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Can we ask why you're leaving a company paying over 9.6 cpl? nm
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Totally agree. They're no longer paying for this so-called skill
and that's part of the reason the quality is down.
Only if they're paying 20+ per/hr with cheap benefits, 401K, and generous vacation time.
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getting paid what (we think) we're worth
You may chuckle at what you're being offered, but there's a possibility that the company you're applying for a position with cannot offer more than that. If they're billing the client 13 cpl but after all of the overhead (401K plans, paid time off, software programs for MTs, employer's share of the SS tax, etc), comes out 5 cpl (which leaves 8 cpl), how are they going to keep enough for company expenses (i.e. lawyers, accountants) and still pay a decent line rate to the MTs.
So, unless you have access to the accounting books and have access to the profit and loss statements, you don't really know why MTs are not offered more than they were in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
We're usually paid by the line SM
I think MTEC is worth it, at least from what I hear.
If you're paid on production, SM
I'd very strongly recommend buying a program. Looking things up in a book takes so, so much more time, and wild card searches are the pits at very best.
If you're not paid for your time
you shouldn't account for your time. It's none of their business if you have to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water or even load the washer or pet the cat. They just want control which they don't want to pay for.l
Actually, no, it's poor you! You're the one who paid all the money
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Why does that bother you? You're getting paid to type
what is dictated. What does it matter if it is "Mrs. Smith" in paragraph 1, "Ethel" in paragraph 3, or "the patient" in the recommendations? LOLOLOL
Of course not, and that's why we're paid the BIG BUCKS to transcribe.
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You don't care WHAT you're paid???? Gee, that's real sad........
Depends on where you work and how you're paid
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But we're not paid by bytes anymore..sm
in case you haven't heard lately, am I am being honest about it. We're paid half of what we were paid 10 years ago, salary is going down yearly on a more or less geometric level...this is line by line, got it?
If you're paid by the hour, and not by the line, YES.
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My line including spaces is 65 characters. I've heard that not counting spaces
takes away over 35% of your line count. I believe it too because you have at least 15 or so spaces on each line that you type. Use your first sentence up top as an example; you had 77 char and 21 spaces - in that line that would be a little less than 30% of your characters that you didn't get paid for. I don't think it's worth it and wouldn't want to work without getting credit for my spaces.
Why would they care? Management is paid salary and that's all they're concerned with.
We're an expendable commodity to those people. If we quit, we're easily replaced.
Yes. Three months paid training? That's just ridiculous unless you're working
in the office. What service can afford to pay an MT for three months of training?
Just wait till you're 10+ years into it and getting paid half of that.
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You're expected quota depends on whether you are paid hourly or per line. SM
I'm paid hourly and I was told the requirement was 50 or more reports per day. I've never worked QA per line, but I'm sure their line quota is pretty high, at least 2000 or better per day, as you get credit for every line in every report you QA.
Hope this was the answer you were looking for.
What a lame excuse. Move forward on your lawsuit, cuz you're not gettin paid.
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For QA consulting I'm paid per hour; QA instructing (college) paid salary, QA editing paid per li
I am an IC and work for two different MTSOs as well as instruct at a business college.
If you have not transcribed using BOS
guidelines that is probably the problem. See which version they are using and get a copy.
and this is how our records are transcribed =(
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I have not strictly transcribed in about 10 yrs.sm
I work full-time doing medical transcription but I also have other duties that do not involve transcribing so I don't keep up with lines or anything like that; I get paid by the hour. I have worked 3-4 hours in the evenings for one of the national companies for a little over a month but I can't seem to get my line count up. I've only been able to do around 100 lph. I know it will take longer than it would if I worked 8 hours just transcribing. I would like to quit the other job and just work from home transcribing but I'm afraid if I can't get my line count up I won't be able to maintain my current income. I'm not a blazing fast typist, I probably type 75-80 wpm without any kind of expanders. Any helpful advice or encouragement on whether you guys think at my typing speed it is within reason to think I can make it to 150-200 lph? I've done straight transcription in the past but I never had to keep up with lines. I have 30+ years of experience. I just need to decide whether to keep things the way they are now or take the chance on income by production only. BYW, I transcribe acute care for the national.
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