Anonymous MT Surveys

Would you like to take a couple of minutes of your time to answer one or more of our medical transcription surveys? Your answers will add to the general information base about this unique and rewarding career. Questions are of a general nature and each survey only takes a couple of minutes. Your browser must accept "cookies" to participate in the survey.

Complete a Medword Survey

• General survey of self-employed MTs Go To Survey
• Survey of MTs employed full time Go To Survey
• Survey of MTs employed part time Go To Survey
• MT equipment-use survey Go To Survey
• MT work environment survey Go To Survey
• MT "Do you buy over the Internet?" survey Go To Survey
• MT lines per day/payment/wpm survey Go To Survey

View Results of Medword Surveys

• General survey of self-employed MTs View Now
• Survey of MTs employed full time View Now
• Survey of MTs employed part time View Now
• MT equipment-use survey View Now
• MT work environment survey View Now
• MT "Do you buy over the Internet?" survey View Now
• MT lines per day/payment/wpm survey View Now
• Archived previous MT Income Survey View Now

U.S.A. Statistics:

Wage-and-salary medical transcriptionists had median hourly earnings of $14.40 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $12.17 and $17.06. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $10.22, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $20.15. Median hourly earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of medical transcriptionists were:

Compensation methods for medical transcriptionists vary. Some are paid based on the number of hours they work or on the number of lines they transcribe. Others receive a base pay per hour with incentives for extra production. Employees of transcription services and independent contractors almost always receive production-based pay. Independent contractors earn more than do transcriptionists who work for others, but independent contractors have higher expenses than their corporate counterparts, receive no benefits, and may face higher risk of termination than do wage-and-salary transcriptionists.

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