Average Pay for Court Reporter Archives

Google Trend graph of a Court Reporter shows it’s on a massive decline. The graph shows that since 2004, there’s been almost a 50% decline in interest for Court Reporters. We believe with new technology, creating word-for-word transcriptions there may not be as much of a demand for a human, rather Courts turning to technology instead. Either way this career has seen some stabilization in 2012 and 2013.

Bureau of Labor Statistics information for Court Reporter salaries states that in 2010 the median pay for a Court Reporter was $47,700 a year or $22.93 an hour. A Court Reporter requires at least a Post-secondary non-degree award to obtain the position. The total number of Court Reporter jobs in the US in 2010 were 22,000. The job growth rate for Court Reporters is expected to be around 14% growth from 2010 – 2020 adding around 3,100 Court Reporter jobs from 2010 to 2020. If you use our state by state salary listings for Court Reporters below you’ll see that you can earn $18,000 a year which is about $29,700 less a year below the median salary by working in the highest paying state.

Listed below is information that is specific to Court Reporter job salaries that you can expect to receive in that state area. Our state by state breakdown allows you to see which state is best to get a job as a Court Reporter. The salary information provided below is off of real-world job listings for Court Reporters and the pay offered for those jobs. We source Indeed, Simply Hired, PayScale and GlassDoor.com. The information provided by Indeed about their process for collecting salary averages is as follows: “Indeed Salary Search is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Many job descriptions don’t contain salary information, but there are enough that do to produce statistically significant median salaries for millions of keyword, job title and location combinations – in fact, most job searches you are likely to think of. As new jobs are added each day, the Indeed Salary Search index is automatically updated with fresh salary data, so the salary results are as up-to-date as they could possibly be.”

Court Reporter Salary Information For 2015

This table displays Court Reporter Salaries By State so that people can compare how much an Court Reporter makes in a specific state. This comparison engine will help people easily identify the best salaries for Court Reporters.

Career	State	Salary	Percent	Data Year
Court Reporter	Alabama	$23,000	1% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Alaska	$17,000	26% lower	2015
Court Reporter	American Samoa	$28,000	20% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Arizona	$19,000	18% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Arkansas	$23,000	2% higher	2015
Court Reporter	California	$25,000	7% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Colorado	$20,000	11% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Connecticut	$27,000	15% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Delaware	$20,000	12% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Florida	$21,000	7% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Georgia	$26,000	14% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Guam	$21,000	9% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Hawaii	$14,000	38% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Idaho	$15,000	34% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Illinois	$26,000	13% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Indiana	$22,000	4% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Iowa	$23,000	2% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Kansas	$21,000	9% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Kentucky	$20,000	14% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Louisiana	$21,000	11% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Maine	$20,000	12% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Maryland	$24,000	3% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Massachusetts	$28,000	20% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Michigan	$23,000	1% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Minnesota	$20,000	13% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Mississippi	$24,000	5% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Missouri	$23,000	2% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Montana	$19,000	17% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Nebraska	$17,000	27% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Nevada	$17,000	24% lower	2015
Court Reporter	New Hampshire	$23,000	1% lower	2015
Court Reporter	New Jersey	$25,000	8% higher	2015
Court Reporter	New Mexico	$20,000	13% lower	2015
Court Reporter	New York	$28,000	21% higher	2015
Court Reporter	North Carolina	$22,000	5% lower	2015
Court Reporter	North Dakota	$20,000	11% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Ohio	$22,000	4% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Oklahoma	$21,000	8% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Oregon	$22,000	3% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Pennsylvania	$22,000	4% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Puerto Rico	$22,000	3% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Rhode Island	$21,000	9% lower	2015
Court Reporter	South Carolina	$23,000	1% lower	2015
Court Reporter	South Dakota	$17,000	25% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Tennessee	$21,000	7% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Texas	$22,000	3% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Utah	$18,000	22% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Vermont	$20,000	12% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Virgin Islands	$24,000	2% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Virginia	$23,000	1% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Washington DC	$29,000	25% higher	2015
Court Reporter	Washington	$24,000	3% higher	2015
Court Reporter	West Virginia	$22,000	6% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Wisconsin	$20,000	11% lower	2015
Court Reporter	Wyoming	$19,000	17% lower	2015