What would you say the range of pay is for a Team Lead, editor sm

and MT?  Just trying to get a feel if our pay rates are in line with the norm, too high or too low (have a feeling too low). 

Working on making positive changes.  Any input appreciated.

As background ... small national, 150 MTs, all work kept in U.S.A.  Work types:  Clinic, HIM, ortho, cardiology, radiology.  All ICs, might be looking to hire employees. 

With everyone complaining about companies, it can't hurt to ask what the norm is - the good norm :)

• What would you say the range of pay is for a Team Lead, editor sm - Curious
  • Shift Lead MT/QA - Anon
    • Do you transcribe too? How much are you - Curious
  • should have said that this is for a small national not - curious

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She never understands anything I am talking about. I have to explain things to her like she is a 2 year old, and even then she just doesn't get it. Why would a company put someone who is clueless about transcription in a position over other MTs!!!??? It is just another frustration to add to an every increasing list of frustrations. But, like you, I am keeping my mouth shut. I just don't get it!! 

The patient’s EKG shows a sinus rhythm 73 beats/minute with normal intervals, normal axis, normal QRS, normal STs.  The patient has nonspecific T-wave inversions in V2, V3, V4, V5, and V6, as well as biphasic T-waves in lead I and aVL.  She has flattened T-waves in leads II, III, and 5.    There is no lead 5 (at least not in roman numbers)  What should I type here????

What about involving MTStars as a way to get a petition started, or to create a new formun.  After all, that is what WE, the MT wants and this is what the website is about correct?  Maybe that is how to get a union started, or a petition big enough to send to the people who care, whether it is Washington or the IRS.  I am in the same boat as the rest of you all.  I made big bucks three years ago, for 8 years, and now it is just gone. I am making a 1/3 of what I did.  If you lead the way, I will follow. Just tell me where to sign.

You cannot type in what you cannot hear.

and nowhere in your original post did I read that anyone checked with the doctor.  That is the problem we have.  If you or the lead had actually checked and he said to change it, fine.  But neither of you checked.  You asked the lead, the lead said change it and you changed it. 

I worked in the HIM dept of a hospital at the beginning of my 10 years in this field, so I know what position this degree could put me in.  I also know that just the fact of having a degree is more than just being an MT and it will give me advantages than I currently have. 

I do feel like this is almost a lost cause and that the MT industry is reaching the point of no return (or has already).  I currently work for a fairly small transcription company and I am very thankful for the work that I have, even though I don't get paid what I would like, but I do have plenty of work and it is getting me by.  I chose to go back to school because I don't want everything to turn upside down and I have nothing to fall back on.  I wish all the best for the MT industry and if things do turn around I would never leave it, but I don't think that will be the case.

Trying to stay around not more than 275,000.  Would like 3 bedrooms, and 2 to 2.5 baths with an office or fourth bedroom for work.  A pool would be nice.  When we were there about three weeks ago all the new tracts were on lotteries or about a one year wait to build.  Don't really wanna hassle with the lottery since I don't live local.  How about Palm Valley?  Is that a nice place?  What would you say is the community with the best schools.  My priority is location, schools, price, community amenities, not too far from everything so hubby does not have a monstrous commute, etc. 

Thanks so much for answering, it is really nice to get opinions from people who actually live there.

The 2-year assistant degree salary starts at around $30,000 here (the same as a beginning teacher).  The PT master's degree starts at around $60,000 per year here; other areas of the country, of course, are likely to vary.   I already have a bachelor's degree; I'm going for the master's, but I don't know how long the waiting list is.  

I think you would be very ambitious and over-reaching if you charged 15 cents a line to think that you were competing with the nationals.  It sounds like she is new to transcription and has no way to gauge what she should charge.  If she is by herself, she is not going to be able to handle a clinic account or a hospital account by herself.  They will give her over 5000 lines a day.  She needs to be realistic on what she can handle before she thinks about what she can charge them.

Please - don't look for a problem when there is no problem.  They said NFL teams - you know how many NFL teams there are????????????  Try 2 for each state.....American league, national league.  They said "celebs" - try a zillion.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it........nobody posting compromised any HIPAA laws or any patient confidentiality. 

Give us a break, eh?

I think he is referring to range of motion when he says 5,0,8,0,3,8,2????

Nice to have at least a range as a starting point.  The cpl you gave is close to what I was guessing the rate would be.  Thanks for your reply!

Does anyone know anything about working for the orion team (oriontranscription.com)? 

Thanks, Lindsay

since I have my own service.  I know that you can't put someone with much less experience in a position over a bunch of people with a lot of experience.  It just does not work.  I not only have a lot of MT experience, but I have been a service owner for quite a few years.  Before that, I worked in a hospital transcription department with a lot of seasoned MTs.  Through the years you see a lot of supervisory changes and what it boils down to is the experienced MTs need/want someone who knows more than they do, someone they can go to for help, when they need it.  With someone less experienced, they can't.

One of the big problems people had with Medquist when it started was that the "suits" were running things - not people who actually knew what they were doing when it came to transcription.  You have to know both sides of it.  And I can tell you from years and years of experience, it doesn't work when you try to put someone with less experience over those with lots of experience.  The seasoned MTs have NO respect for someone who knows less than they do.

Sorry, but that's the way it is.

Two days ago our supervisor came into our office because Dr. Neuro had dictated a report.  It was obviously an EEG. She did not know what template it went on.  Well, co-worker (super MT) just jumps up and said “I don’t know, you have to call home MT 1 and home MT 2 because they do cardio”  Well mind you, super MT has only been there a year.  I have been their 8 years and I have done ever single report that hospital offers including cardio, especially cardio because that is the first thing that pops into my Q.  (Doc dictate EGGs under cardio, it is up to us to put it in the template).  I found that insulting.  Then yesterday one of our male MTs needed help deciphering what a doc said.  Well super MT jumps tall cubicles to help so I just kept on typing.  She could not understand it either so she gets someone else who is not even an MT to listen.  It is petty but I find it insulting. I don’t do her that a way. 

I am more of an introvert.  Super MT has a lot of friends that come in our office just basically gossip about the other people who work next door. I try to tune them out because I only have 8 hours to get my lines in because I have to be out by 4:30 to pick up my two children.  I cannot stay late like they do.  I used to go to lunch with super MT and her buds but stopped lately because I joined a gym and I go work out with another girl who happens to be on the top of their gossip list.  They don’t approve of her lifestyle, which it is questionable but it is her business.  She is a pleasant person to work out with we just happen to have a common interest in exercising.   All they wanted to talk about at lunch is talk about some TV show I have no clue what it is because I don’t have time to watch TV.   I have 2 small children and when I get home I have to hit the ground running with supper, dishes, grocery store.  I also have also turned down their outside parties, 1 because I could not find a babysitter (alcohol is involved at their parties) and the last one was because I was running on fumes until payday and a $20 meal just for me was way out of budget. 

I have explained most of the above to her about babysitting, interest in loosing weight, tight budgets and needing to get my line count up which is why I don’t talk as much and go to my introverted ways (they called me an introvert and super MT is an extrovert), not that I don’t watch TV and could care less what the people next door are doing and really could care less what my workout buddy is doing in her spare time.  Then again I may have told them that.  Should I be bending over backwards to be in their crowd?  I didn't know being their best friend was part of my job description.  I don’t think they are all as great as they think they are but I don’t see why we cannot at least respect each other as professionals.