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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: Captioner, Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR), Court Recorder, Court Reporter, Court Stenographer, Deposition Reporter
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- $65,850
- $31.66/hr
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- 40
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- Not published
- Typical U.S. entry requirement
- Postsecondary nondegree award
- plus Short-term on-the-job training
Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.
Pay range in Greater Boston
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $46,080 | $46,120 | $65,850 | $90,640 | $91,350 |
10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- 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.
AI and this job
AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.
Higher exposure74 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 67
- Language-model AIOE 71
- GPTs-are-GPTs 84
Observed AI use today: Substantial (Anthropic Economic Index)
Court reporting and captioning have higher AI exposure, and observed AI use is substantial. Federal projections say AI is doing more captioning, especially for video. Tools can turn speech into text quickly. Being in the room, asking speakers to repeat unclear words, and producing transcripts for judges and lawyers still involve people.
Likely to change
- Turning speech into text and captions
- Producing transcripts from recordings
Still relies on people
- Asking speakers to clarify unclear statements
- Recording live depositions and court proceedings
What federal projections say
“Capital/labor substitution - share decreases as simultaneous captioning is increasingly done by artificial intelligence (AI), especially for video content.”
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