Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

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Risk & user votes

Calculated automation risk

94% (Imminent Risk)

Imminent Risk (81-100%): This occupation appears highly exposed to end-to-end replacement by AI, software, robotics, or other computer-controlled systems. Roles in this range often involve predictable, repeatable, or rules-based work with limited need for human judgement, trust, creativity, or adaptation to messy real-world conditions. This does not mean every job will disappear immediately, but it is a strong signal to consider safer alternatives or start building more resilient skills.

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Human strengths important in this job

These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.

Communicating with people outside the organization

Quite important
Why this matters
Represents the organization to customers, the public, or government—handling questions, concerns, and relationship-building through conversations, writing, calls, or email.
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What users think

Based on 71 votes

76% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted that it's probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 94% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

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Pay & outlook

Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2024, the median annual wage for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners was $67,310 ($32 per hour).

The median annual wage for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners was 36.0% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.

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Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Growth

Slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners' job openings is expected to decline 0.3% by 2034

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Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2024 there were 12,630 people employed as 'Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 12 thousand people are employed as 'Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners'.

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What people are saying (3)

Kay (Highly likely)
17 Oct 2024 15:52
Voice and speech recognition and the ability to interpret in real time by AI have increased in quality and continue to develop rapidly.
Jason (Low)
17 Sep 2024 14:41
People do not want their appeals and freedom dictated by machines. Speaker errors of who is talking. Accents. Growing use of new slang. Uh-huh/huh-uh.
David (Highly likely)
22 Jun 2023 23:17
My girlfriend has this job and she is already losing hours to AI technology
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Job 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-SOC code: 27-3092.00