I like to look at medical transcription as a career where there are no limits. Currently, you may not be earning the medical transcriptionist salary that you would like. Well, I am here to let you know that no matter how much or how little you are making right now, there is always room for improvement.
Below you will see five easy ways that anyone can raise their medical transcriptionist salary in a short period of time:
1. Have you ever tried typing with no help at all? This is usually the case for a lot of newbies. To speed up your production, (and pay of course), you must getd a word expander program. If you are not sure what a word expander program is, then let me be the first to tell you that it is affordable software that allows you to type in the full word, and then allows you to expand it when you type in the partial word. For example, if you want to type in the word, "transcription", all you have to do is type something like "trans" and the word expander will then type out the entire word for you. You wouldn't believe how much time can be saved, and how much extra money can be made.
2. Another thing I like to suggest to people who are looking to increase their pay is to purchase a comfortable desk and chair. Considering the fact that you will be sitting for almost half the day, it would be very smart to make sure that you can move easily. Make sure that your computer is not up to high and that your keyboard isn't down too low and vice versa. Desk discomfort can slow down production a lot more than you think.
3. Another way to increase your medical transcriptionist salary is to apply for higher-paying medical transcriptionist jobs. The standard starting salary is about .6 to .8 cents per line. That doesn't sound like a lot, but if you type quickly, you can make more than the average transcriptionist. Make sure that the company you apply with also includes spaces. If they don't include spaces, then you are going to end up typing twice as much just to get by.
4. Something that you should definitely own is a foot pedal, or at least learn all of the shortcuts, such as hot keys. You see, when you are transcribing a report, you will constantly have to start, stop, rewind, and fast forward the dictation. Instead of having to take your hands off the keyboard and using your mouse, you can use your foot pedal or hot keys. With medical transcription, every second counts.
5. And finally, I like to suggest that people work on the quality of their reports. The reason why is because if you can type a good report with little to no errors, then the company you work for will value you much more as a worker, and will be much more likely to increase your pay. You will also have a better chance of snagging those higher-paying positions that start off around .12 to .14 cents per line instead of .6 to .8 cents per line.It is so simple to increase your medical transcriptionist pay. All it takes is a little bit of knowledge on your part. A word expander and a comfortable chair and desk can mean the difference between an extra 100 to 300 lines per hour. Owning a foot pedal can help you tack on an extra 50 to 100 or more. Over the period of a couple of hours, you can make up to five times as much as you would without any help, which is really an entire paycheck!
Author Resource:
Susan B. Eliot is the authority in the field of medical transcription. She is an excellent resource when it comes to medical transcriptionist salary . She owns and manages her own medical transcription service and knows from her own experience how to maximize your medical transcriptionist salary .
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