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42,130dollars per year
The lowest 10 percent of court reporters and simultaneous captioners earned less than $42,130 a year in May 2025.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The lowest 10 percent earned less than $42,130, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $130,560.”
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners: Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025, Pay.
Open the original- What it measures
- A percentile of the court reporter and captioner group. It describes the spread of pay for that group, not for freelance transcriptionists.
- What it does not show
- The group includes simultaneous captioners and salaried staff, so it is a wider and higher-paid group than freelance legal transcription.