Re: Steady Work for Qualified MTs

When I moved to the Bay Area in 1971, my first job was at UCSF medical
center, in radiology, and I made $10 an hour with all the wonderful
benefits of a state employee at that time. Man, it's amazing how
little things have changed in almost 35 years!

Margie, aging herself with this post

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:43:22 -0400, "Barbara Carlson"
<bbcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yes, but when the local hospital offered me $8 an hour (12 years ago) in
>house it at least offered benefits, vacation, social security copayment, and
>I didn't have to have my own computer. I didn't take it then because I was
>doing better on my own, but when you consider the bennies, it was a lot more
>that $8 an hour. $10 to $12 an hour as an IC with any kind of experience is
>laughable! It might be a chance for a newbie, but he isn't asking for
>newbies. I worked for 6 cents a line when I started, but not for very long!
>
>Barb C.
>"Jeannie Wilson" <jwilson421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:Xns96805B9968C9jwilson421comcastnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote here for all to
>> seenews:gQ4ve.8895$xm1.7068@xxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> It's also about the same range as the hospitals and clinics in my town
>>> pay. My wife just got a raise to $10.80 an hour for in-house MT.
>>>
>>> As the man said, no one has to get excited about it, but it's there for
>>> someone who needs the work. Not every area in the country is overloaded
>>> with transcription to be done.
>>
>> That's fairly good - the hospitals around here (last time I checked)
>> topped
>> out around 10.15 or so an hour for transcriptionists with about the same
>> line requirement and you didn't even get your own computer, it was used by
>> various shifts. Of course, that was three or four years ago but
>> considering the line requirement, it was more financially beneficial for
>> me
>> to keep working as a sub for a company at a lower line rate than I
>> would've liked than to go in somewhere for 8-9 hours and bring home less
>> money.
>

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