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Offered 7.25 cpl for 30 years experience - sm

Posted By: bystander on 2006-07-25
In Reply to: Just offered 8.5 cpl (sm) - 30+ years experience

Your offer sounds like a good deal compared to mine, but neither is what we are worth.


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TTS offered me 6.5 cpl with 20 years' experience
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I was offered 8 cpl with 19 years of experience.
I was going to give it a try, but I didn't want to purchase equipment for a job paying 8 cpl.  Sorry, but that's way low if you ask me.  I think it is a rather small company though. 
I have many many years of experience and was offered....
7.5 cpl as employee or 9 cpl for IC. Seemed way too low to me, especially after I was told what the account was like. They seem nice, but nice doesn't pay the bills! Good luck to you!

20 years of experience and offered

I was offered 8 cpl with 12 years of experience. Did NOT accept the job!! nm
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I had applied but they offered 7 cpl for 14 years experience..I said NO...
That's about all I know. I cant remember what kind of work it was either, but I wouldnt do clinic or acute care for that low pay.
I was offered 8 cpl w/years of experience. He wouldn't say if pay would go up if I didn't take
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Fifteen years experience here and also offered 8 cpl as a max at multiple companies. This biz is
going down hill fast. I remember making 10 cpl 10 years ago and that was cheap..Only profession I know that has gone down in wages rather than up. Very sad. If you offered 8 cpl..take it..
12 yrs experience, offered 8.5 cpl in the last 6 months. :( nm
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Me 16 yrs. experience. Offered 7 cents too.
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I was offered 10 cpl; after 5 years at MQ
at a MUCH lower rate, and NEVER an increase in 5 years, plus now they've also calculated the line counts to be much lower, I feel LUCKY to get 10 cpl!   I'm thrilled to death, jumping up and down for joy!  I too have almost 20 years of experience as a career MT.
You offered 6 cpl for someone with nearly 20 years
I wonder how much you charge your clients if you can only pay MTs 6 cpl and QA 1.5 cpl.

I would never insult someone with that many years of experience with an offer of 6 cpl. And yes, it is an insult. There are plenty of other MTSOs with consistent work where one can make a lot more than 6 cpl. Why would someone want to work for that? Probably they are new with no experience or they are clueless as to their own worth or they are NO GOOD.

It is highly unprofessional of you to come on here talking like this about former employees, good or bad. Very tacky, and it speaks volumes about your character.

I obviously turned down your offer of 6 cpl, but I'm really glad others have sites like this to come to where they can find out from other MTs what a place is like to work at. As someone else said, smart people can filter through the posts here and decide for themselves whether a company is a good fit or not. Former employees' rants and raves can be dismissed as disgruntled. However, your own rants are just pathetic. You just opened your mouth and proved to all that most of the prior posts are likely accurate. You should take Business 101.
8 cpl I was offered with 19 years of
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I have 20 years and have never been offered
and if you're reliable you probably do, but if they give it to you with 10 years of experience, then they have to shell it out to everyone with 10 years or more, so doubt you'll get 10 cpl.  I've only been offered 9 at the most.  Good luck though...
And with 20+ years, you still get offered

It seems like the longer you are in the business, the less they offer.  Funny how that works.  I've never been offered more than 9 ever and that's for clinic which on a few occasions was really acute care they were trying to pass off as clinic.  All of this trickery goes along with the business.  If anyone is making 10 cpl, then they either have been with the company a long time OR they are being paid an incentive to go above and beyond a certain line quota. 


Companies post their rate of pay, at least most of them, so there is no guess work.  For a while there I'd say about a year ago, most were actually putting in the ads - rate is not negotiable...  cracked me up!  Everything in this fine country is negotiable! 


We are being offered that with 20+ years

Consider yourself lucky you're not at 6 cpl.


Use MT-World software, offered 8-1/4 cpl for experience, cap MIGHT be 9 cpl. nm
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They use MT-World software and only offered me 8-1/4 cpl for experience. nm
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10 yrs experience w/CMT Alltype offered 8.75 per line : (
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Do know either question, but I was offered 8 cpl on 1100 lpd with experience. You get 8.5 cpl if U
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Offered pay for 6 months experience... any good?

I got offered a position to type some reports in a specialty I have been typing for 6 months.  I was offered 7cpl for 65 character line.  Does not pay for hard returns, tabs, empty lines, headers, footers are not paid.  Spaces between words are. 


At my other position I was getting 6cpl including hard returns. 


How do I figure out if this new offer is equal or better than what I already had? 


Yes, I know neither are high paying.  I am new to the industry, only finished my course 7months ago.  BUT, this particular specialty is easy for me and I have very high marks with QA.


Any and all advise is welcome.  Thanks!


Soooo...if those WITH lots of experience are being offered
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I was offered less than 7cpl this year with 10+ yrs experience.

Was offered 8-1/4 cpl for experience. They use MT World software. Didn't take the job. nm
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ATSI uses MT-World software. Pay offered was low for experience. nm
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Two years ago I was offered .075 cpl. Horrible dictators!
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The wages offered to MTs with alot of years is (sm)
in addition to the adjectives you used, downright demeaning, and bordering on questioning one's self-worth. I'm really so sick over it because for the past 2 decades I have devoted my life to MTing; gave 100+% each and every day, kept up with the new drugs/terminology (on my own time). I even have gone so far beyond what is expect because of my love of MTing and medicne, that rather than read a good juicy romance novel at bedtime, I'd read one of the doc's I transcribed for leftover medical journals, just keep on top of the game. This was while working inhouse--- and all because I was properly compensated for my hard efforts. Working from home for an online,....that don't give a rats azz....all they want are the lines and 98.5% accuracy at all times. Period. That's just one of the problems with working from home -- the impersonalization that accompanies it. I'm headed back inhouse where I'm appreciated, have a blast with my coworkers, docs, nurses, tecs, and be paid what I am worthy of after doing this for over 1/4 century. No more penny checks for me. No more line counts. No QAing. AMEN.
Paying for experience is NOT the norm out here. I'm finding newbies getting offered my same 8
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Think you still have to go to NJ to train. Was offered a very low per-page rate several years ago.
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About 5 years ago was offered 10 cpl including spaces, 65 characters. sm
Don't know about now. That was doing all acute care, mainly op reports with full benefit package.

I declined and have my own accounts, but it was a good offer.

Good luck.
I was offered 8.25 cpl in the beginning of 2006. Turned it down. 13+ years in.
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You had better believe it. Working 12 years in a huge university and now offered 8 cpl. nm
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They use MT-World software. I was offered 8 cpl for experience. Benefits are supposed to kick in at
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A year ago, I was offered 8 cpl for experience and I needed my own Word 2003. I turned them down. nm
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Over 14 years expierence and offered 7.75 cpl to start. I had to turn it down but the people were
very nice. I just couldn't take a pay cut like that.
webmedix- I have 25 years exp., was offered low rate of pay. Heard it is a good company. nm
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7.25 cpl - 12 years experience
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With how many years of experience ?
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I have 18 years of experience and yet
I got sent a letter telling me to reapply when I had more experience.

They would not tell me what I missed on their testing. I know I did not do that badly.

You can have them.
I have 20 years experience....
they wanted to pay me $10/hr for the first 30 days. Puleeze.
And how many years experience do you have?
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I have 10 years of experience, that's how.nm
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5 years experience?
All of the companies I'm finding want someone with 5+ years experience.

Does anyone know a good nationwide company that would be happy with 2-1/2 years experience?


Gee...I have over 30 years experience

and I STILL use reference books and websites to look things up and verify spellings, words, etc.  Maybe that explains why you were let go better than anything else.  With the rapid advances and changes in medicine...I don't think that anyone ever gets to know enough to stop using references. 


19 years experience was not enough. Wow!
I'm kinda curious who did get the job, maybe someone with 40 years experience =)
I have 23 years experience
and I still run into grammar errors; part of it was the last company I worked for made me do some very strange things. But, also, it's because since my schooling 23 years ago, somethings really have changed, and I myself have gotten fairly lax about it. The last company I worked for didn't correct anything; be thankful for the criteria, and LEARN from it. This will make you a BETTER mt.
I have nearly 20 years' of experience and have

recently started exploring options.   I have been offered 10 cpl as employee and 11 as an IC with a couple of companies.  The lowest I've been offered is 9 cpl as employee.  


It should be 20 years' experience OR 20 years of experience

the apostrophe takes the place of the OF.


Well, my experience is from a few years ago (sm)
but at that time they were fine to work with. They always paid on time. I actually had to re-record on my account, but like I said, that was probably closer to 4 years ago now. I remember that the people were nice as well. I ended up moving on because for one reason or other they lost the account I was working on, and I was already an IC for another company at that time, but the parting was on good terms. I'd work with them again.
17 years experience.
Loved your toast!!
I have 5 years of experience
going on 6, and I was just offered 9.5 cpl for straight typing on an ER account, and I can't wait to start this week.