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Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
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.
Also called: Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR), Court Reporter, Court Stenographer, Official Court Reporter, Captioner, Court Recorder, Deposition Reporter, Digital Court Reporter.
O*NET 27-3092.00
At a glance
- US median annual pay
- $72,420
- Middle half earn $53,760 to $100,780. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
- Preparation needed
- Job Zone 3 of 5
- Medium preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.
- US employment outlook, 2024 to 2034
- 0% · Little or no change
- 17,700 jobs in 2024, projected 17,700. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which groups this with similar roles as "Court reporters and simultaneous captioners".
What the work involves
The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.
- 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.
- Log and store exhibits from court proceedings.
Skills and knowledge it leans on
Skills
- Active Listening4.3 / 5
- Writing3.6 / 5
- Reading Comprehension3.5 / 5
- Speaking3.0 / 5
- Monitoring3.0 / 5
- Critical Thinking2.8 / 5
Knowledge areas
- English Language4.9 / 5
- Computers and Electronics4.4 / 5
- Administrative4.0 / 5
- Law and Government4.0 / 5
- Customer and Personal Service3.7 / 5
- Telecommunications2.7 / 5
Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.
Who tends to enjoy it
How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.
- Realistic20
- Investigative19
- Artistic32
- Social32
- Enterprising27
- Conventional77
The same work abroad
Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.
European occupation titles (ESCO)
- court jury coordinator · DE Gerichtskoordinator/Gerichtskoordinatorin · FR coordonnateur de jury de cour/coordonnatrice de jury de cour
- interpreter · DE Dolmetscher/Dolmetscherin · FR interprète
- lawyer linguist · DE Rechts- und Sprachsachverständiger/Rechts- und Sprachsachverständige · FR juriste-linguiste
- sign language interpreter · DE Gebärdensprachdolmetscher/Gebärdensprachdolmetscherin · FR interprète en langue des signes
- translator · DE Übersetzer/Übersetzerin · FR traducteur/traductrice
- subtitler · DE Texter von Untertiteln/Texterin von Untertiteln · FR sous-titreur/sous-titreuse
Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)
- Legal associate professionals (3520)57,300 employed
- Company secretaries and administrators (4214)24,800 employed
- Legal professionals n.e.c. (2419)84,800 employed
Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.
Pay across Europe, for the whole group
Median annual earnings of all employees in “Professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.
| Country | Median pay |
|---|---|
| Belgium | €61,714 |
| Germany | €59,529 |
| Ireland | €56,877 |
| Austria | €55,374 |
| Netherlands | €53,595 |
| Sweden | €43,567 |
| France | €41,515 |
| Spain | €35,735 |
| Italy | €33,649 |
| Portugal | €26,072 |
| Poland | €14,380 |
Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.
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