If $13.50 an hour sounds like a lot of money to you
Posted By: there's something very wrong on 2005-10-01
In Reply to: My husband makes a LOT more money than me.. - Janitor's wife
Unions do nothing more than overpay uneducated unskilled laborers so they can milk dues out of them, and again I wouldn't be excited about $13.50 an hour, especially if I was a guy. Hardly Fortune 500 pay.
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I have worked as an IC for 5 years now. When I started out I was making .12 per line and now make 0.85. I've gone from about $18-$20 an hour to about $12-$14. I am quitting and going inhouse. They are starting me off at $15.00 and I get a raise after 90 days. I have decided that the way to go is to get paid by the hour, not by the line at this point. I loved working at home, but the money is just too hard to earn. I recently was going to interview at a hospital in house and then home, and they offered $15.00 plus incentive for any lines typed over 125 per hour. Sounded ideal to me, but it was too far away...
Anyway, it's ironic because when I left my hospital job in 2001, I was making $15.60 an hour. Now I'm going back in house for a little less money. I feel like after 5 years, I should be getting more money per hour not less.. But it will be a relief not to have to worry about money.
bless your heart for thinking $10-12/hour is good money - nm
nm
$1.50 an hour sounds good until you calculate FT at
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Sounds wonderful. Money isn't everything.
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sounds like double-speak - no money but...nm
sounds like a sneaky way to "save money" to me
I would challenge that policy and seriously look at changing jobs if they did not explain it to my satisfaction or otherwise leave it as you described it.
Sounds like facility is trying to save money by
I have a job where MTs were to put in billing and coding number. Use # X for emergency admits, except if it is Tuesday and sunny, then use # XX. That sort of thing. I had no idea what I was doing but figured if Dr was going to sign off on this mess, it was all on him.
sounds like its the corp money grubbing middle men
If we could get rid of them (do not know if that is possible at this point), we would have happier, higher paid MTs, and better quality work for the hospitals. What they must think of us with the quality of work they are seeing. IF only they knew we are backed up against the wall with everything based on production, lowered pay rates, AND limiting reports being sent to QA. Everyone is losing here.
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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Depends on the pay and account. My lowest average is $15.52 an hour (roughly 182.6 lines an hour) w
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1850 lines per 8 hour shift. 15.00 hour - no real requirement
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if it is feasable, split that 6-hour shift into two 3-hour shifts. sm
i work a split shift and find that i am much better able to stay focused and get more work done that way. also, being 3 months pregnant you have gone through the very tiring time of pregnancy and you should start seeing an energy perk before long.
I start an hour or 2 early and then take an hour or 2 for dinner -nm
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At 200 lines a day for 6 cents, you are making $1.20 a day or 0.15 hour for an 8 hour day!!!--cm
Did you mean 2,000? Even then you would only be making $1.50 if you work 8 hours a day.
$32/hour? You said $36/hour on an earlier post. Either way would be great. n/m
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Make money? I'm not making any money because of my decision. You read my reasoning
You can agree with me or not, but don't make false assumptions please.
You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
I also blew some money signing up with Quixtar... The only way to make any money is to bug everyone
you know into signing up. I felt like a snake oil huckster. I hated it. I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money.
RUN, do not walk away! I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!) Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing. Then make a business out of it. That's the best way to have a side business. Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar? Not so much.
The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
10 reports/hour or 25 markers/hour
NM
Yeah, money, that's it. I paid $20.00 for my dog. Money is NOT THE ISSUE
walk him daily, play ball daily, he sleeps in my office daily while I work. Yeah, I got a lot of money, NOT HARDLY. And, my dog is HORRIBLY HORRIBLY ABUSED because he wears a collar around his neck. It's people like you that make me sick. I am done defending my use of the shock collar. I am going to continue with it and my dog will continue to be pampered , educated, fed, kept warm, and love me for everything that I do for him even when I remind him that his barking needs to stop. So, with that said, I will not respond to any more of your CRAP in reference to the shock collar.
Money is money and most people will do whatever it takes when in need. sm
if you do bring it to the attn of the office manager, why not offer her a raise to compensate. it is obvious she just needs or wants more money than your office is paying her. I agree, it is a free country and although it seems odd, unless you had it outlined in contract, she can work for whomever or whereever she pleases on the side. at least she is typing and not at a strip joint, lol. I see no conflict of interest, she has experience obviously in whichever field you are in and what is wrong with doing extra in that field. i agree with MYOB "nicely" and concentrate on your reports than looking at older reports and seeing who they are typed by.
I appreciate your responses. I had an option of line vs hour ($14/hour) but if line pays more...nm
nm
65 to 75 an hour comes to $15 an hour if u are fast
nm
No need to wonder..It always means less money for the MT and more money for MQ.
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Money, honey, money!!!!!!.
nm
One year and you make decent money? What is decent money to you?
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from 4:45 to 6:30 a.m. (1 hour 45 min)
 I did 556 lines. That's par for the course for me when I use the keyboard rather than VR - 250 to 275 lines per hour. But I'm no macro or expander expert so I type out about 50-75% of the work.
Don't take anything that is not by the hour.
There is no decent line rate for QA. Hourly only. If you take the line pay, you will force QA pay down.
really $25/hour
are u really making $25/hour doing transcribing and if you are what office? why are you stating an hourly rate instead of a line rate?
$50 an hour down to $8...whatever
more than $10 hour possible
As independent, I charge 12 to 17 per gross line (average 15/line)- type 10-12 pages per hour -- 300 plus lines ($30 to $50 per hour). Have phone-in dictation system. Deliver hard copies. Multiple accounts with up to 15 physicians, plus overflow work. Major account has 40+ reports a day. Always have work! Been doing this at home since 1990. Will not do difficult dictators (or charge more and let them know why). Also charge for copies/stat reports/faxes and delivery. Provide quality work. So, the work and the money are out there!
About $23 an hour. nm
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I wish they would pay by the hour because with sm
some MTs (new/old) their work is horrific because they try to get their line count and don't care. These companies will learn when they loose accounts or get sued.
12-15 an hour ?
No way! I made more than that 10 years ago! God I hope you're wrong!
$24 an hour?
Oh please tell me where ... thanks ! Joanne
That's $7.50/hour!
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under an hour???
OMG you are kidding me, right? You must be talking about newbies, just out of school. PLEASE tell me you're talking about newbies just out of school!
$20 an hour...
You make more than $20 an hour at a HOSPITAL? I would never leave the hospital then. I quit my job at "big national" to work for a hospital and made...drum roll...$10 an hour! I lasted 4 months because I felt demoralized. If I could earn $20, I would happy work my butt off for 8 hours a day - no problem! Consider yourself lucky.
per hour pay
I would prefer to be paid by the hour. In that way I could concentrate more on quality instead of the almighty quantity, meeting quotas and turnaround times. Doubt we'll see that ever happen though.
what should I do? $16.50 an hour ...
Hi Guys! I'm an MT with 13+ years of medical records transcription experience. My job got outsourced and the hospital currently dumped me in a unit clerk position for $15.35 an hour on weekends, and $16.15 for the 3-11 shift. The work really SUCKS and I miss MT so badly I've taken on some at-home work.
I found a local hospital that wants to give me a job for $16.50 an hour and they won't BUDGE on the money - even though as an MT I was earning $21 an hour. THis job is 1/2 pathology MT and half lab secretary work. They won't even go to $17 an hour - $16.50. They're checking my references - but I'm soooo unhappy with the money. The pluses are: the hospital is 5 miles from my home, the hours are Mon-Fri 9 to 5, 2 additional holidays than my current hospital, free parking, free medical (non-union) job with $5 copays and $0 Rx copay.
Yes, those are all significant benefits, but aren't the ripping me off with the money? And the fact they won't budge at all makes me feel they don't really care about hiring me, or not. The job has been open for 5 months - can't find an MT to do the secy work, and can't find a secy who CAN HANDLE the MT ! HEre I come, well-experienced in both - and the interview went fantastic!.
So what should I do ? What do you guys think?
Thanks! JoJo
350 lph would be $28 an hour.
If you are relatively new in the field and need the experience, than it is a good deal. But if you are relatively new in the field you probably will not type 350 per hour. I do not think it is worth it.
$22/hour for LPN as I know it...NM
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In CA it is anywhere between $17 to $24 an hour
That's only about an hour from us.
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40/hour
Those 40/hour job ads really make me laugh, I have been doing this 30 years, work on only one account, have had the account for about 7 years and get paid by the gross line and make about 30-35, am still waiting for the 40!!
$9 per hour?!?
Hun, you got your goals set WAY too low!
does your per hour pay
include benefits, vacation days? And do you work from home?
1 hour -
I knew by the time we got to the end of the first training period that I wasn't coming back. Trainer was incompetent, uncaring and abrasive. She kept 2 of us waiting while she held the hand of one gal who didn't know how to click on files in a pulldown menu. I figured any company that would hire someone with computer skills that poor was too desperate for me to hitch my wagon to them.
$50 an hour is too low
They're saying they will pay you $50 per audio hour? Let's say you're doing it at a 3:1 ratio, the one hour takes you three hours if you are fast, well, you're still going to want to read it over and proof it. I ask for $75 per audio hour, and that puts me at $25 an hour without the time I spend proofing it. Others ask for $95 and I've heard even $115.
Now, if there are multiple speakers on the audio, you can ask for more too. And depending on turnaround you can ask for rush rates.
Good luck!
Diane
#32 an hour
I make anywhere from $30 to $40 on my regular account which I have done for almost eight years with lots of expanders. This is usually three days a week and not even a full day. When I work fill-in at the hospital I can't make over $12-15 an hour, but then I am very picky and choose quality over quantity. I probably couldn't get hired anywhere else because of that. The account I have is a very hard-to-understand doctor and he asked for me because I had done him privately for several years and "could read his mind" so he says. Just experience is all and that makes it much easier.
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