The Definitive List: 5 Ways To Increase Your Medical Transcription Salary

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 more.

Given below are five easy ways that anyone can raise their medical transcriptionist salary in little to no time at all:

1. Have you ever tried typing with no help at all? This is usually the case for a lot of beginners. 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 inexpensive 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. It’s amazing how much time you can save, and how much extra money can be made.

2. Something else I like to suggest to people who are looking to raise their pay is to purchase a comfortable desk and chair. When you think about the fact that you will be sitting for almost half the day, it would be very wise to ensure that you can move with ease. 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 hurt production a lot more than you think.

3. A different way to increase your medical transcriptionist salary is to apply for higher-paying medical transcriptionist jobs. The normal starting salary is about .6 to .8 cents per line. That doesn’t sound like very much, but if you are fast, 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 get 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 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 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 very 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!