Apparently they do not think we are capable of doing the math.
Posted By: noname on 2006-11-06
In Reply to: $8.75/hr nice hourly wage? - knows how to read
The math is there and it is not pretty!
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Oops..sorry..Apparently, it's not Transcend's fault, it's the hospitals. Apparently, they d
that we were being overpaid so they changed the way our lines are counted. We will no longer get paid for footers, headers etc,and who knows what else they took out, although we still have to make sure they are all correct and make the appropriate changes and put in information. 
Capable
I am VERY capable of handling several accounts. I HAD 3 backup accounts to my primary account. I was recently cut back to my primary and 1 secondary account. According to my RM it was happening to all MLS in my region to avoid the difficulties encountered by having several secondary accounts and to allow MLS to have more work available on their primary account . My primary account never has enough work to cover my entire shift, though it did 3 years ago before outsourcing. I guess it depends on who you know and what region you work for.
If you're capable, you have the
however many secondary accounts.
How can you know for a fact how much another individual is capable of doing? sm
I have tried to ignore your constant negativity, and I do feel sorry for you because you must have an unhappy life to want to always rain on everyone else, but enough is enough.
I average 300-350 lines an hour, at 11 cpl that equals over $33/hour. I have been an MT for over 30 years now, and have been blessed with a natural ability for speed and spelling, and, although there are new things to learn every day, I do not have to spend the majority of my work day looking up things.
I am not trying to be adversarial, and it makes no difference to me what you believe. I cannot believe I even got sucked this far into defending myself against some stranger. I wish you well, and hope you have a job that you enjoy as much as I do mine.
Merry Christmas :)
DRC if you're capable of high quality work.
DRC (Digital Records Corp.) is a top-of-the line company to work for, if you are capable of doing top-of-the-line work.
Do the math. How many MTs do you have that (sm)
are actual OSi employees? Also, how many of those MTs are you losing on a daily basis?
there would be math! sm
Just kidding!
do the math
I have another a/c with about 30 MDs over the period of the week. No one does 20-25 reports an hour on this one either except Sat/Sun when they are doing all chest & bone x-rays.
Perhaps some day I'll work for a place where 20-25 reports an hour can be done. For all the places I've worked that would amount to 400-500 lines/hr. perhaps even 600 in some instances.
The cardiology interventional I do on one a/c often run 100+ lines. You want to take $1.75-2.00 for that? LOL. What is that, let's see 0.0175 to .02 a line. A 40-line CT @ the low end of $0.07 line comes out to $2.80. 20-line US is $1.40. Get my drift here?
Don't tell me about how good you are at shortcuts. LOL. You should be making a decent salary with a minimum of these, and should be making the big $$ for being REALLY good at this and for being a fast typist. Not a decent salary for both.
How are you doing your math?
Are you assuming 1o words per line?
Math
1000 words x .11 cpl =$110
1000 words x .10 cpl =$100
Any more questions?
Let's do the math ...
I do work for a company that pays me half a cent more per line because I am a CMT. So every 3 years I have to spend about $300 (i.e., about $100 per year) to maintain that credential. I average around 15,000 lines per pay period. Multiply that by 0.005, and I am getting an extra $75 every 2 weeks (or $1950 per year) for being a CMT. In my case, it's well worth it.
Do the math
You say you did 2 test reports in under 10 minutes?
If you do 3 reports in 10 minutes = thats a whopping 2.10 every 30 minutes or 12.60 per hour.
4 every 10 minutes is 16.80...
etc.
math anyone??
What I do know is that 22% of each report is spaces, period. So I am not sure how 54 characters equates.
Any math whizzes out there?
Someone help me with my math...
 Every 10 seconds of dictation is 15 lines. If I make 100 minutes a day for radiology at 11/cpl, how much is that in 1 day? Or is this equation incomplete? ugh.
Are you using new math?
If you transcribe 2000 lpd you would earn $150 at 7.5 cpl/200 lph
$150 pd x 10 days in a pay period = $1500
$1500 x 2 paychecks a month = $3000 a month (most months have 21 or 22 work days in them)
Assuming you worked 8 hours a day for 20 days in a month, your hourly rate is $18.75 for every hour worked.
I get the impression this is clinic work not acute care. It is harder to do 2000 lpd consistently on acute care, but not so with clinic after getting accustomed to the account. I don't know anything about this company. I'm just making an observation.
Well, I did the math for me
I make .075 cpl. New ISR rate for me 0.46875 (less than 5 cpl).
11001 lines at my current rate = $1045.09
11001 lines at my new ISR rate = $735.69
Net LOSS per WEEK if my production doesn't change= $309.40
Provided of course, I can even GET that many lines to type. I can't any more. I have NSA as I type this. There's not enough work NOW. No matter how fast you get at ISR, if there's no work to type, you make NADA!
Math ??? Not correct
16 hours a day at $50 dollars an hour times 6 days equals 4800 a week times 52 weeks equals 250,000 a year. But if you take 16 hours times 6 days x 52 weeks equals 4992 hours which if you divide that by your 100 K = $20 per hour. Not bad. And if you make 250,000 but only have 100,000 after taxes why work that hard for less than 50% of the pay.
I did the math a few weeks ago and it is (sm)
roughly a difference of 15.5% - I say 'roughly' because I did the count on Word and have been told Word does not give an accurate count - but used same program for the whole document and figured several ways....
I did the math about 3 months ago and it was
a 15.5% reduction for w/o spaces - this was done on 3 reports using Word and I've been told Word counts or does not count weird things that should be counted - but I figured the same 3 reports as one large document and checked it for a 65 line with spaces, w/o spaces, refigured again on a 55 character line with and w/o for both an MT rate of pay of say 10 cpl and also on a QA line rate of say 4 cpl and it all basically came back at approximately a 15.5% reduction. I had been told before it was 17% and it might well be 17% figured on a different line counter program - but if you do the math over a 2 week period or however long your pay period is - this can make a significant difference!! Good luck.
Oops! Sorry can't do math..30%
Check out this math. LOL
Did you mean $5.50 per 1,000 words? If so, 1,000 words x 5 Keystrokes = 5,000 characters. 5,000 characters/65 cpl = 76.9 lines. $5.50/76.9 = just over $.07 cpl. It seems to be on par.
My math error, sorry. sm
But it is not for me, I don't want to do 2000 lines a day, 250 lines an hour, for 7.5/lines for $150. bucks. Burn out. Nobody should have to work like that to make a living not with the junk dictation.
but ya all go ahead..
No my math is fine
Actually my math is fine, been working with industry standards a long time :)
average 10 words per line
AVERAGE
and i'm no longer an MTSO. just a grunt who's happy to be one
Wow, sounds like someone's been doing their math homework.
I bet you grabbed your calculator immediately after you read her post and started punching in numbers. LOL! And you all talk about Happy OSi'er having too much time on her hands? You apparently have plenty of time on yours too. Get a life!
Correct my math if I am wrong....
I have calculated that 22% (on average) of a report is spaces (by manual count). So...if we have to cut out half of the spaces...that is an instant pay cut of 11%. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never been good at doing the math... SM
Thanks for doing it for me. The definitely is way too low.
Fuzzy math. A 40% cut in pay is not offset by a 40% increase
in production.
To break even in this picture, you would have to have a much greater increase in production. IF you currently do 2000 lines a day at 8 cpl, and your new "blended" rate pays 4.8 cpl, you would have to do 3,334 lines to break even, or at least a 67% increase in production. Do you all really think you can do it?
that s/b math, didn't mean to sound ugly.
Augusta Medical Transcription -- help me do the math (sm)
Augusta has a job advertised $1.25/thousand characters, 65 character line including headers and footers. So, that's equal to a little over 8 cpl -- right? I have never seen a company state pay in such a way.
Any math wizards out there that can help..Based on a 65 character line,
if you were not paid for spaces, what would 11 cpl (w/o) equal? It sounded good, but when I did the math it was lower than 8 cpl with spaces? I hope I'm not right.
Sorry I know people have asked this before but I couldnt remember answer.
I am not slow, and there is no reason to attack me. Simple math says that if you sm
can type 300 lines per hour @ 9-10 cpl versus 6.5 cpl, which place would you go? If you cannot figure THAT one out, perhaps it is not me who is slow.
perhaps math is your problem. 375 lines/hour x 0.08 = 30.00. totally doable.
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If you figure out the math, 135 words equals 12.5 lines a minute...sm
12.5 lines a minute equals 750 lines an hour. Anybody make that?
Apparently not
I asked this same question a short time ago and no one answered. I switched from a major player to a smaller comany for that very reason, now THEY are switching to a platform. The platforms seem to provide the benefit to the MTSO, not to the transcriptionist, in my experience. Line counts drop, no more pay for headers/footers, can't use your own AutoText. It's not that I'm an old dog unwilling to change with the times, I just don't appreciate being taken advantage of.
Uh, apparently someone else did it for me. nm
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Apparently you did, and you need one!
The last company I worked for their IT department came in on my computer and changed the IP configuration on my router so bad I had to get a new one. They shadowed in so there was nothing I could do while they were doing it. Not to mention not a single one of them could speak English and only communicated through IM - I left. To say that a high turnover rate means bad MTs is ridiculous. There are a lot of things we discover once working for a company and some of us do not feel the need to accept those things so leave.
Apparently, since many of us
work at home and cannot be present in the office for a big warm and fuzzy ''group hug'' we feel entitled to other ''stuff'' in compensation?
Group e-mails do very little for me, by way of validation. What does mean something to me is a personal e-mail if/when I do something meritorious, above and beyond, to deserve it. If I really push beyond my contractual obligation to help clear a backlog, work on my days off at the boss's request, do a spectacular job on a very difficult dictation and get an ''attagirl'' from QA - on those occasions, I appreciate being commended or thanked. But a generic e-mail thanking me for not calling in sick all the time, being dependable, working the days I have agreed to work, being as accurate as I am expected to be really means nothing to me. This just reminds me of the ''every kid gets a trophy'' theory we operate under nowadays. If you want a reward, do something extra to deserve it!
Well, apparently
The 5 or so supposedly separate posters in this thread who weren't paid are saying they believe they were hired to just do a frenzied clean-up over an overflow accoount and then not paid. I think that's why a couple of them have pointed out overflow work.
I think...?
I'm kind of lost in this thread and trying to keep it clear in my muddled brain while I read the posts, lol!
Apparently! nm
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Apparently....
you are too immature to understand the concept or have never wanted for anything. Not everyone is in your shoes. Some MTs wear Guccis, others hand-me downs. Same job should equate to equal pay for all MTs who do the same type of work. It doesn't always. Without complaints, you don't get anywhere. You have no need to complain, apparently. Everyone has different needs. An MT who is single with very few bills may make a wonderful living at $16 an hour. A single parent MT, trying to support 3 or 4 kids at .07 cpl does not find it so easy. Gag and then puke!
You bet it does. Apparently, you have been out of the loop sm
for a long time. Go work in a hospital office and see the brown nosers there. How about an insurance company? All sorts there. Better yet, go to a bank. How about some of the major corporate offices? They kiss butt all the time and even do "other things" to get to the top. Get real and get used to it. This is life. I like to come to this board and see your "holier than thou" and "poor me" attitudes and make total idiots of yourselves. It makes for great entertainment. I definitely would NOT want to work alongside the likes of you. No wonder your job didn't work out. Nobody likes catty transcriptionists. Pull in your claws.
Well apparently you don't have much work lately
LOL
I just went there and apparently all the posts have
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well, apparently I have missed that.
Not a problem, though. Have a great day
We apparently don't have the same coverage
I have been charged the deductible for office visits, which was a surprise to me when it happened. Also, many medications are $50 per co-payment.
If you are healthy and don't need it, I guess it's good insurance. If you use it, you pay a LOT out of pocket and now it will be worse.
Apparently I got lucky....
I have great communication from my TM and have had no problems whatsoever. I hope you get your schedule changed to help you out and early congrats on the baby!
Apparently they did not have any difficulty--sm
getting responses, which the last mentioned was 135. Perhaps you should have applied, just to find out who they are, since you cannot seem to sit still in your undies just wondering about it, or maybe you DID apply and didn't get chosen....sour grapes. sheesh. real mature.
apparently you do not have the same supervisor I did!
Exact opposite. Pay was always on time, though.
Apparently you aren't going to let this go!
Tricky: I asked a while back how far off the line counts are in your mind - 2% 1% 10%?
If its a small discrepancy you might consider dropping it, if its a lot you could find a different job if management can't explain it to your satisfaction.
That said, I'm totally in your corner if there is serious discrepancy here, but so far you have not elaborated how much you think the counts are off.
That's how stupid it is, but apparently it has been done. sm
So many people think that MT is easy and they can pick it up fast, but getting in the door is the tough part.
Years ago someone on one of these boards confessed to doing such a thing. I've heard other similar stories as well.
It IS sad. It brings us all down.
No your hand is up, because apparently
you think it's normal for somebody not to be able to spell the name of the company they work for. Sorry, my hand is down because I agree that's a little weird. Sorry if that offends, people, I just think it's strange.
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