Medical Transcriptionist Salary

Medical Transcription Salary - A Hot Commodity

Medical transcription is a hot career right now. Many people are drawn to medical transcription because of the flexible hours and the ability to work from home. Others want to put the medical knowledge they've picked up in other fields to work in a new position. In addition to an exhaustive knowledge of human anatomy, diseases, and pharmaceuticals, a medical transcriptionist needs a keen ear to be able to decipher doctors' recorded speech and turn it into meaningful medical data. In the last 10 years, technological advances have made medical transcription a career ideally suited to work from home. Instead of messing around with tapes and tape recorders, doctors can now record their medical notes on a digital recorder and upload the audio files directly to a medical transcription company, which can then make them available for transcriptionists to download and transcribe from their home computers. This ability to work from home means that jobs in medical transcription are in hot demand. With such stiff competition in the field, many are asking, "what is a medical transcriptionist salary like?"

Medical Transcriptionist Salary Data

With so many applicants entering the field, employers can afford to be choosy when hiring a medical transcriptionist. Salary in this field isn't affected much by degree (see the Medical Transcriptionist Salary by Degree chart for details), but completing a certification program can make a big difference when it comes to actually getting a job in medical transcription - salary negotiations are hard without a job offer, after all! If you're looking for a place with high medical transcriptionist salaries, look to the west. The Medical Transcriptionist Salary by State chart shows that California is currently in the lead. Looking closer at salary data by location, the Medical Transcriptionist Salary by City report shows that it's possible to earn a high medical transcriptionist salary in many locations, some of which have a much lower cost of living than others. Use the PayScale Cost of Living Calculator to compare both Cost of Living and Medical Transcriptionist Salary Data for various U.S. cities.

For the real dirt on what it's like to be a medical transcriptionist, get the info from one who knows. Read "Working from Home: A Medical Transcriptionist Salary" in the Salary Stories blog.