From the courthouse to TV studios, court reporters, deposition reporters, and broadcast captioners are in demand! Embark on a career that's vital, exciting, and rewarding, with coast-to-coast opportunities at your fingertips.

Full-time court reporter averages $62,000 - $100,000; full-time real-time reporter averages $75,000 - $150,000+

The U.S. Department of Labor projects that court reporting job opportunities will grow as fast as the average for all occupations through 2012.

Captioning of live television programs is done by specially trained real-time reporters. Federal rules require captioning of hundreds of hours of live programming each week, creating a surge in career opportunities.

About 27% of the court reporters work in court. The majority are freelance reporters hired by attorneys to create verbatim transcripts of pretrial depositions of potential trial witnesses.