Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners · SOC 27-3092

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captionerss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for court reporters and simultaneous captioners. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 67 metro areas

Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$143,170	50	0.0
2	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$138,340	30	0.1
3	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$133,900	230	0.1
4	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$130,730	130	0.1
5	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$129,380	260	0.1
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$129,270	260	0.1
7	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$125,970	220	0.1
8	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$123,900	150	0.1
9	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$123,230	110	0.1
10	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$118,200	110	0.1
11	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$113,200	40	0.0
12	Visalia, CA	$108,790	30	0.2
13	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$108,230	30	0.2
14	El Paso, TX	$106,010	50	0.2
15	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$102,900	30	0.1
16	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$99,620	60	0.1
17	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$92,250	70	0.1
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$90,230	1,060	0.1
19	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$86,900	160	0.1
20	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$86,510	290	0.0
21	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$85,690	70	0.1
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$83,000	190	0.1
23	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$82,040	50	0.1
24	Fargo, ND-MN	$80,720	30	0.2
25	Mobile, AL	$80,110	30	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.