Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

General Information

Description

Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

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Industry areas

  • Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security

Job Outlook

Employment of court reporters and simultaneous captioners is projected to show little or no change from 2021 to 2031. Despitelimitedemployment growth, about 2,000 openings for court reporters and simultaneous captioners are projected each year, on average, over the decade. Most of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as to retire.

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Salary

Average Salary

Salary

$60,380

Military salary*

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State-by-state Salary

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$101,580
$26,850
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Education

Most Common Education Levels

People in this career achieve this level of education.

  • Post-secondary certificate 74%
  • Associate's degree 11%
  • High school 5%
  • Some college 5%
  • First professional degree 2%
  • Master's degree 0%
  • Doctoral degree 0%
  • Bachelor's degree 0%
  • Post baccalaureate 0%
  • Less than high school 0%
  • Post-doctoral training 0%
  • Post-master's certificate 0%

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Knowledge

  • Administrative
  • English Language
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Law and Government
  • Customer and Personal Service
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