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Job Outlooks & Earnings
- Employment of the medical transcriptionist is projected to increase 7 to 13 percent between 2008 and 2018.
- Employers prefer medical transcriptionists who have completed a postsecondary training program at a vocational school or community college.
- Demand for medical transcription services will be spurred by a growing and aging population. Older age groups receive proportionately greater numbers of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that require documentation.
- A high level of demand for transcription services also will be sustained by the continued need for electronic documentation that can easily be shared among providers, third-party payers, regulators, consumers, and health information systems.
- Growing numbers of medical transcriptionists will be needed to amend patients’ records, edit documents from speech recognition systems, and identify discrepancies in medical reports.
- Contracting out transcription work overseas and advancements in speech recognition technology are not expected to significantly reduce the need for well-trained medical transcriptionists.
- An increasing demand for standardized records should result in rapid employment growth in physicians’ offices, especially in large group practices.
- Medical transcriptionists had median hourly earnings of $16.03 in May 2009. The middle 50 percent earned $15.68. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $10.78, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $21.97.
*Source: U.S. Department of Labor)
