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Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

Role Overview

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.

Salary by State (top paying)

State Median salary
New York $109,220
Texas $105,550
California $103,640
Washington $102,620
Iowa $89,290
Utah $84,510
Massachusetts $82,440
Illinois $76,030
Delaware $75,600
Nebraska $72,910
South Dakota $72,300
Kansas $71,070
Missouri $70,260
North Carolina $68,100
North Dakota $67,810

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See the Salary by State table above for state-level median wages from OEWS data.

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), BLS Employment Projections.

Median Annual Salary

$67,310

Projected Growth (10yr)

+-0.3%

Avg. annual openings

1.7k

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