Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Career, Salary and Skills
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $72,420 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 12,870. Wage data is published for 104 locations.
Occupation 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.
O*NET code
27-3092.00
Job zone
3
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$72,420
Hourly median
$34.82
Employment
12,870
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 4.25 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 3.62 | 3.50 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.50 | 3.88 |
| Monitoring | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Speaking | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Critical Thinking | 2.75 | 2.88 |
| Time Management | 2.75 | 2.75 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 2.62 | 2.38 |
| Quality Control Analysis | 2.62 | 2.00 |
| Active Learning | 2.00 | 2.00 |
Typical tasks
- Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.
- Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
- Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.
- Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.
- Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.
- Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.
- File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.
- Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
Technology
- Acclaim Legal Acclaim DepoManage
- Acculaw Court Reporters Billing Scheduling Job Management System ABSMS
- Advantage Software Total Eclipse
- AudioScribe SpeechCAT
- Chase Software Solutions Court Reporting Software
- Cheetah International SmartCAT
- Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
- Courtpages
- Courtroom Data Solutions Techlennium
- Electronic Transcript Software ProTEXT
- Equative TimeLedger
- ForTheRecord TheRecord Player
- Gigatron StenoCAT
- HTH Engineering Start-Stop PowerPlay
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in CAMedian $116,020 · Employment 1,400
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in NYMedian $101,990 · Employment 1,400
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in TXMedian $110,080 · Employment 1,270
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in FLMedian $49,240 · Employment 1,110
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in New York, NYMedian $90,230 · Employment 1,060
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in INMedian $54,740 · Employment 890
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in ILMedian $75,890 · Employment 770
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in PAMedian $65,100 · Employment 670
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $76,790 · Employment 510
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in Miami, FLMedian $48,430 · Employment 440
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in ALMedian $67,340 · Employment 350
- Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners Salary in OHMedian $67,330 · Employment 340
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.