5 Ways To Increase Your Medical Transcription Salary

I like to look at medical transcription as a career where there are no limits. Right now, you may not be making the 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 more.

Given below are five simple ways that anyone can increase their transcriptionist salary in little to no time at all:

1. Have you ever tried typing with no help at all? This is often the case for a lot of newbies. To speed up your production, (and pay of course), you need a word expander program. If you are not sure what a word expander program is, then I will be the first to tell you that 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 you can save, and how much extra money you can make.

2. Something else I like to recommend 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 profitable to make sure that you can move with ease. Make sure that your computer is not up to high and that your key board isn’t down too low and vice versa. Desk discomfort can hinder production a lot more than you think.

3. Another way to increase transcriptionist salary is to apply for higher-paying transcriptionist jobs. The usual starting salary is about .6 to .8 cents per line. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you are fast, you can make more than the average transcriptionist. Make sure that the company you apply to 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 taking 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. Last, but not least, I like to recommend 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 an employee, and will be much more likely to give you a raise. 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 very simple to increase your 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!