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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.

Sector: Creative & Media
Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
O*NET code: 27-3092.00

What you'll actually do

The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.

Documenting/Recording Information

central to the job — rated 94/100 for importance.
Working with Computers

central to the job — rated 91/100 for importance.
Getting Information

a major part of the work — rated 81/100 for importance.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

a major part of the work — rated 80/100 for importance.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

a major part of the work — rated 72/100 for importance.
Processing Information

a major part of the work — rated 71/100 for importance.

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.

What it takes

Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.

Skills

Active Listening

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Writing

Needed at a solid working level (46/100), and rated 60/100 for importance.
Reading Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (52/100), and rated 53/100 for importance.
Speaking

Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 50/100 for importance.
Monitoring

Needed at a basic working level (43/100), and rated 50/100 for importance.

Knowledge

English Language

Needed at a high level (74/100), and rated 95/100 for importance.
Administrative

Needed at expert level (86/100), and rated 90/100 for importance.
Computers and Electronics

Needed at a high level (69/100), and rated 79/100 for importance.
Law and Government

Needed at a solid working level (56/100), and rated 73/100 for importance.

Abilities

Speech Recognition

Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Oral Comprehension

Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 78/100 for importance.
Written Expression

Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
Oral Expression

Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.

How people get in

O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.

Education

Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.

Experience

One to two years of related experience is typical.

Training

Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.

What it pays

These are typical creative compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.

WPP · Pentagram · Google

$100k – $180k

Mid-size Agencies

$70k – $110k

Freelance & Boutique

$45k – $80k

How the work tends to run

Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.

Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”

How FlightWay scores your fit against this

No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.

1. You answer a short quiz: Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
2. We correlate the two profiles: Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
3. The number you see is personality fit only: "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
4. Every factor is visible: You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.

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