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Medical Transcriptionists
Career and Education Info
Job Numbers and Growth
Government data shows about 98,000 for medical transcriptionists. The unemployment rate for this occupation is relatively low.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
23% of people working as employees are employed part-time. Medical transcriptionists work for themselves about 10% of the time.
Training and Education
Education requirements for this career usually include a postsecondary vocational award. Approximately 10% of people working as employees have earned a degree. Among medical transcriptionists about 59% went to college but did not get a degree. Among workers, 31% have a high school diploma, but no college education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
Jobs are relatively more common in Michigan City (Indiana), Hot Springs (Arkansas), and Lewiston (Idaho), and less common in Oxnard (California), Santa Rosa (California), and Las Vegas (Nevada).
Average income is highest in San Jose (California), Bethesda (Maryland), and Santa Ana (California) and lowest in Johnstown (Pennsylvania), Albany (Georgia), and Monroe (Louisiana).
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Medical Transcriptionists: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Medical Transcriptionists, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Medical Transcriptionists are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Medical Transcriptionists are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Auburn 30 $29,640 1.3 Alabama Birmingham 350 $29,870 1.1 Alabama Decatur 30 $31,220 1.1 Alabama Dothan 120 $27,740 3.8Alabama Florence 60 $24,140 2.3Alabama Gadsden 40 $29,840 2.4Alabama Huntsville 150 $28,270 1.3 Alabama Mobile 170 $28,840 1.6 Alabama Montgomery 100 $30,300 1 Alabama Tuscaloosa 100 $27,760 2.1Alaska Anchorage 60 $42,460 0.7 Arizona Kingman 70 $36,860 2.6Arizona Phoenix 1,420 $35,400 1.3 Arizona Prescott 70 $33,030 2.1Arizona Tucson 270 $31,980 1.3 Arkansas Fayetteville 80 $28,290 0.7 Arkansas Fort Smith 60 $26,810 0.9 Arkansas Hot Springs 110 $31,760 6Arkansas Jonesboro 60 $30,770 2.4Arkansas Little Rock 290 $30,000 1.5 California Bakersfield 90 $35,910 0.6 California Chico 70 $31,690 1.9 California Fresno 110 $39,110 0.6 California Modesto 120 $38,830 1.3 California Oakland 280 $43,970 0.5 California Oxnard 70 $38,240 0.4 California Riverside 440 $37,610 0.6 California Sacramento 320 $39,690 0.6 California Salinas 70 $46,420 0.8 California San Diego 440 $39,950 0.6 California San Jose 350 $47,220 0.6 California San Luis Obispo 30 $39,930 0.6 California Santa Ana 540 $44,000 0.6 California Santa Barbara 80 $36,070 0.8 California Santa Rosa 40 $42,980 0.4 Colorado Boulder 110 $39,230 1.2 Colorado Colorado Springs 160 $34,590 1.1 Colorado Denver 540 $38,950 0.7 Colorado Fort Collins 50 $34,670 0.7 Colorado Grand Junction 60 $25,460 2Colorado Greeley 30 $35,680 0.7 Colorado Pueblo 60 $28,510 2.2Connecticut Bridgeport 140 $35,750 0.5 Connecticut Hartford 260 $33,180 0.8 Connecticut New Haven 130 $41,970 0.8 Connecticut Norwich 50 $36,940 0.7 Connecticut Waterbury 80 $37,630 2.2Delaware Dover 50 $31,410 1.8 Delaware Wilmington 140 $34,900 0.7 District of Columbia Washington 600 $36,030 0.4 Florida Cape Coral 90 $32,610 0.8 Florida Deltona 130 $30,330 1.5 Florida Fort Lauderdale 310 $34,990 0.7 Florida Fort Walton Beach 40 $33,160 1 Florida Gainesville 100 $25,600 1.6 Florida Jacksonville 410 $32,540 1.2 Florida Lakeland 150 $31,820 1.4 Florida Miami 370 $33,200 0.6 Florida Naples 50 $35,090 0.7 Florida Ocala 140 $29,160 2.7Florida Orlando 750 $31,250 1.2 Florida Palm Bay 150 $31,070 1.3 Florida Pensacola 70 $28,900 0.8 Florida Port St Lucie 100 $32,240 1.4 Florida Sarasota 150 $33,910 1 Florida Sebastian 40 $30,260 1.6 Florida Tallahassee 70 $30,690 0.8 Florida Tampa 990 $31,230 1.4 Florida West Palm Beach 210 $29,680 0.7 Georgia Albany 40 $20,980 1.3 Georgia Athens 40 $31,920 1 Georgia Atlanta 620 $33,210 0.4 Georgia Brunswick 60 $29,820 2.8Georgia Columbus 60 $28,410 1 Georgia Gainesville 30 $34,780 0.8 Georgia Macon 100 $28,530 1.8 Georgia Rome 40 $31,710 2.2Georgia Savannah 70 $35,230 0.8 Georgia Valdosta 40 $26,730 1.4 Hawaii Honolulu 120 $41,070 0.5 Idaho Boise 350 $30,930 2.3Idaho Coeur Dalene 120 $36,030 4.2Idaho Lewiston 60 $34,330 5.5Idaho Pocatello 30 $31,700 2Illinois Champaign 90 $35,910 1.8 Illinois Chicago 2,080 $35,200 0.9 Illinois Kankakee 30 $33,390 1.6 Illinois Peoria 120 $36,620 1.2 Illinois Rockford 80 $32,250 0.9 Illinois Springfield 90 $35,150 1.6 Indiana Bloomington 60 $32,970 1.6 Indiana Elkhart 70 $29,250 1 Indiana Evansville 190 $30,390 1.9 Indiana Fort Wayne 160 $30,360 1.3 Indiana Gary 230 $30,620 1.4 Indiana Indianapolis 630 $31,590 1.2 Indiana Lafayette 50 $31,810 1.2 Indiana Michigan City 150 $28,490 6.9Indiana Muncie 80 $31,000 3.5Indiana South Bend 130 $33,050 1.7 Indiana Terre Haute 80 $32,290 2.2Iowa Ames 70 3.7Iowa Cedar Rapids 160 $29,860 2.1Iowa Davenport 150 $33,320 1.4 Iowa Des Moines 540 $30,360 2.8Iowa Dubuque 60 $26,470 2.3Iowa Iowa City 60 $29,540 1.6 Iowa Sioux City 80 $29,890 2.1Iowa Waterloo 140 $32,360 3Kansas Topeka 70 $30,870 1.2 Kansas Wichita 180 $29,570 1 Kentucky Bowling Green 40 1.3 Kentucky Elizabethtown 40 $27,540 1.8 Kentucky Lexington 180 $28,660 1.3 Kentucky Louisville 490 $30,890 1.3 Louisiana Alexandria 60 $25,450 1.9 Louisiana Baton Rouge 160 $28,800 0.7 Louisiana Houma 30 $25,780 0.6 Louisiana Lafayette 80 $25,410 1 Louisiana Lake Charles 60 $25,030 1.3 Louisiana Monroe 90 $20,980 2.1Louisiana New Orleans 420 $30,410 1.4 Louisiana Shreveport 190 $30,720 1.9 Maine Bangor 180 $32,880 5.3Maine Lewiston 70 $30,080 2.8Maine Portland 220 $33,400 1.9 Maryland Baltimore 600 $35,330 0.8 Maryland Bethesda 150 $47,930 0.4 Maryland Cumberland 60 $27,570 3.4Maryland Hagerstown 90 $28,720 1.7 Maryland Salisbury 60 $34,930 2.2Massachusetts Boston 940 $37,900 0.9 Massachusetts Brockton 260 5.4Massachusetts Springfield 140 $35,340 0.8 Massachusetts Worcester 130 $36,230 0.9 Michigan Ann Arbor 130 $43,140 1.4 Michigan Detroit 200 $32,980 0.5 Michigan Flint 130 $31,940 1.7 Michigan Grand Rapids 350 $34,030 1.6 Michigan Holland 40 $31,300 0.7 Michigan Kalamazoo 100 $29,860 1.3 Michigan Lansing 50 $30,330 0.5 Michigan Monroe 50 $33,390 2.5Michigan Muskegon 70 $29,400 2.2Michigan Saginaw 120 $26,030 2.9Michigan Warren 460 $33,450 0.7 Minnesota Duluth 240 $33,940 3.4Minnesota Minneapolis 1,710 $36,750 1.6 Minnesota St Cloud 170 $33,070 3Mississippi Gulfport 30 $28,820 0.5 Mississippi Hattiesburg 70 $25,240 2.4Mississippi Jackson 230 $29,620 1.6 Missouri Columbia 90 $27,550 2Missouri Jefferson City 30 $29,470 0.8 Missouri Kansas City 850 $31,990 1.4 Missouri Springfield 160 $30,570 1.4 Missouri St Louis 960 $33,480 1.2 Montana Missoula 90 $33,350 3.4Nebraska Lincoln 140 $32,750 1.5 Nebraska Omaha 280 $31,650 1 Nevada Las Vegas 160 $35,980 0.3 New Hampshire Manchester 160 $35,910 2.8New Hampshire Rochester 40 $33,080 1.4 New Jersey Atlantic City 50 $38,100 0.6 New Jersey Camden 410 $32,890 1.3 New Jersey Edison 480 $39,010 0.8 New Jersey Newark 350 $40,110 0.6 New Jersey Trenton 60 $37,890 0.5 New Mexico Albuquerque 170 $30,000 0.7 New York Albany 220 $34,010 0.9 New York Binghamton 60 $35,820 1 New York Buffalo 560 $29,520 1.8 New York Nassau 500 $40,360 0.7 New York New York 1,590 $40,940 0.5 New York Poughkeepsie 130 $36,570 0.9 New York Rochester 580 $34,680 2 New York Syracuse 290 $29,720 1.6 New York Utica 100 $30,190 1.4 North Carolina Asheville 200 $30,770 2 North Carolina Burlington 30 $35,540 1 North Carolina Charlotte 390 $33,320 0.7 North Carolina Durham 70 $33,640 0.4 North Carolina Fayetteville 110 $32,760 1.6 North Carolina Goldsboro 50 $30,330 2.7North Carolina Greensboro 260 $34,240 1.2 North Carolina Greenville 90 $31,250 2.4North Carolina Hickory 110 $31,450 1.2 North Carolina Raleigh 400 $31,470 1.3 North Carolina Wilmington 70 $34,010 0.9 North Carolina Winston Salem 340 $37,320 2.8North Dakota Bismarck 130 $27,640 4.4North Dakota Fargo 230 $27,940 3.6Ohio Akron 420 $33,410 2.1Ohio Canton 200 $28,080 2Ohio Cincinnati 690 $30,810 1.1 Ohio Cleveland 530 $32,960 0.8 Ohio Columbus 450 $31,230 0.8 Ohio Dayton 290 $32,410 1.3 Ohio Lima 70 $28,680 2.6Ohio Mansfield 50 $29,170 1.9 Ohio Sandusky 70 $30,920 4Ohio Springfield 60 $30,250 2.5Ohio Toledo 340 $32,150 1.9 Ohio Youngstown 220 $29,160 1.6 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 490 $25,040 1.5 Oklahoma Tulsa 380 $30,840 1.5 Oregon Bend 50 $36,980 1.4 Oregon Eugene 130 $35,030 1.6 Oregon Medford 90 $31,620 2 Oregon Portland 670 $40,200 1.1 Oregon Salem 90 $35,340 1.1 Pennsylvania Allentown 280 $32,070 1.4 Pennsylvania Altoona 50 $28,510 1.6 Pennsylvania Erie 130 $30,260 1.9 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 310 $30,650 1.7 Pennsylvania Johnstown 70 $23,510 2.4Pennsylvania Lancaster 280 $31,230 2.1Pennsylvania Lebanon 60 $27,150 2.6Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1,340 $32,420 1.2 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 1,330 $29,660 2 Pennsylvania Reading 90 $33,460 1 Pennsylvania Scranton 220 $29,320 1.5 Pennsylvania Williamsport 30 $25,630 1.2 Pennsylvania York 70 $32,850 0.7 Rhode Island Providence 410 $35,920 1.2 South Carolina Charleston 150 $29,970 0.9 South Carolina Columbia 180 $31,130 0.9 South Carolina Florence 60 $30,070 1.3 South Carolina Greenville 190 $30,570 1.1 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 40 $29,250 0.6 South Carolina Spartanburg 120 $25,030 1.8 South Dakota Rapid City 130 $30,640 4South Dakota Sioux Falls 290 $29,770 3.8Tennessee Chattanooga 260 $32,120 1.9 Tennessee Jackson 70 $30,680 2.3Tennessee Johnson City 90 $27,830 2.3Tennessee Kingsport 150 $28,920 2.4Tennessee Knoxville 280 $27,920 1.4 Tennessee Memphis 320 $31,480 0.9 Tennessee Morristown 30 $27,390 1.3 Texas Abilene 50 $27,690 1.5 Texas Amarillo 90 $30,590 1.6 Texas Austin 230 $31,670 0.5 Texas Beaumont 50 $31,650 0.6 Texas Brownsville 50 $33,510 0.7 Texas College Station 60 $32,010 1.5 Texas Corpus Christi 50 $28,940 0.5 Texas Dallas 1,060 $36,480 0.8 Texas El Paso 100 $27,050 0.7 Texas Fort Worth 270 $36,460 0.5 Texas Houston 900 $34,660 0.6 Texas Longview 40 $31,740 0.8 Texas Lubbock 130 $27,850 1.9 Texas Mcallen 110 $30,410 0.9 Texas San Antonio 530 $28,490 1.1 Texas Texarkana 40 $33,420 1.4 Texas Tyler 120 $30,200 2.4Texas Wichita Falls 40 $28,400 1.3 Utah Ogden 90 $23,630 0.8 Utah Provo 80 $31,480 0.9 Vermont Burlington 140 $31,080 2.3Virginia Lynchburg 40 $30,020 0.7 Virginia Richmond 530 $29,400 1.5 Virginia Roanoke 120 $30,600 1.3 Virginia Virginia Beach 510 $29,400 1.1 Virginia Winchester 50 $28,980 1.9 Washington Bellingham 40 $37,780 0.9 Washington Bremerton 40 $38,360 0.9 Washington Kennewick 80 $36,580 1.7 Washington Longview 30 $36,030 1.9 Washington Olympia 130 $34,720 2.6Washington Seattle 1,110 $37,800 1.3 Washington Spokane 240 $32,970 2Washington Tacoma 170 $37,000 1.1 Washington Wenatchee 40 $34,430 2West Virginia Charleston 120 $26,360 1.5 West Virginia Huntington 250 $24,420 4West Virginia Morgantown 110 $31,390 4.7West Virginia Parkersburg 70 $25,120 1.9 West Virginia Wheeling 40 $27,800 1.2 Wisconsin Appleton 200 $33,080 3.2Wisconsin Eau Claire 180 $33,330 4.4Wisconsin Fond 50 $30,050 2.3Wisconsin Green Bay 340 $33,200 3.6Wisconsin Janesville 110 $33,580 3.2Wisconsin Madison 470 $34,670 2.4Wisconsin Milwaukee 950 $33,750 1.9 Wisconsin Oshkosh 110 $30,910 2.4Wisconsin Racine 120 $33,450 2.9Wisconsin Sheboygan 60 $30,320 2Wisconsin Wausau 90 $32,080 2.5Wyoming Casper 60 $31,620 3.2Wyoming Cheyenne 60 $29,310 2.8
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