Jobs / Design, media, and writing / 27-3092.00
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.
- US jobs
- 12,870
- Median wage
- $72,420 a year
- Job family
- Design, media, and writing
Can agents do the work of court reporters and simultaneous captioners?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Design, media, and writing:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. OSWorld-Verified includes tasks in image, slide, and document apps, and the best agent passes 90.2% of all its computer tasks. No task-level benchmark in our collection scores the quality of design or writing work.
- Project levelNot yetOn the Remote Labor Index, which includes graphic design, video, 3D, audio, and web projects from freelance platforms, the best agent completed 15.8% of projects to a standard a client would accept. GDPval deliverables score higher (84.9% wins or ties against professionals, reported by OpenAI), but those tasks are one-shot and fully specified.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in design, media, and writing, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.
- Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.
- File and store shorthand notes of court session.
- Respond to requests during court sessions to read portions of the proceedings already recorded.
- Swear in witnesses.
Other job titles for this occupation (22)
Captioner · Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR) · Court Recorder · Court Reporter · Court Stenographer · Deposition Reporter · Digital Court Reporter · Official Court Reporter · Realtime Court Reporter · Stenographer · Court Monitor · Court Recording Monitor · Court Transcriber · Electronic Court Recorder · Freelance Court Reporter · Hearings Reporter · Judicial Reporter · Realtime Captioner · Shorthand Reporter · Stenocaptioner · Text Transcriber · Voice Writing Reporter