Medical transcriptionists can make anywhere from $10-30 per hour depending on typing speed and experience. Many transcriptionists are also able to work from home.
Medical transcription make that much money because they have to do all the selling all the training with almost no automation. Unless you want to seriously develop the skills of communication that most humans lack so much.
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