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Occupation

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.

84 AI exposure
21 Human advantage
51 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners a safe career from AI?

Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners scores 84 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 21, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 51 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners pay

The median wage is $67,310 a year. The lower quarter earns under $50,210 and the upper quarter over $92,710. About 12,630 people do this work in the United States.

Where Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Paralegals and Legal Assistants 85% of the skills carry over $61k median
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks 85% of the skills carry over $48k median
Compliance Managers 66% of the skills carry over $137k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 71% of the skills carry over $94k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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