National Court Reporters Association
- Address: 8224 Old Courthouse Road, Vienna, VA 22182
- Telephone: 703-556-6272 TTY: 703-556-6289
- Facsimile: 703-556-6291
- E-Mail: msic@ncrahq.org
- Web Site: www.ncraonline.org
- Founded: 1899
- Membership: 21,000
- Executive Director: Mark J. Golden, CAE
- President: SueLynn Morgan, RPR - Lawton, OK
- Employees: 38 staff members (33 full-time, 5 part-time)
- Budget: $8.5 million
NCRA is committed to being the leader in advancing the profession of those who capture and integrate the spoken word into a comprehensive and accurate information base for the benefit of the public and private sectors.
NCRA accomplishes this through ethical standards, testing and certification, educational opportunities, communications, government relations, research and analysis, and fiscal responsibility.
Facts and Statistics about Court Reporters
There are an estimated 45,000 court reporters in the U.S.
The top 10 states for NCRA reporter members are:
- California
- Florida
- Texas
- Illinois
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- New Jersey
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
Other Statistics
- Among NCRA reporter members, 89% are female, 11% are male.
- The average age of an NCRA reporter member is 47.
- 24% of NCRA reporter members are employed by courts. 68% work as freelance reporters, most of whom are hired by lawyers to report pretrial depositions of witnesses in civil cases. A growing number of reporters provide captions of live television programming, including local and national news broadcasts, sports events, and awards programs.
- The average annual income for reporters nationwide is $64,000.
- Before becoming famous as a writer, Charles Dickens was a Parliamentary reporter in London. His struggles to learn shorthand became a subplot in David Copperfield.
- Harvey Keitel was a court reporter in New York before focusing on acting full-time.
- In the 4th century B.C., a freed slave named Marcus Tullius Tiro used a system of shorthand to record the speeches of Cicero and other Roman orators and leaders. One of his shorthand devices, the ampersand, is still used today.
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