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Transcript invoice estimator.

Your own rates, line by line, the way the invoice adds up.

The job

Your rates

From your written rate schedule. Leave a line empty to leave it out.

Times the original rate.

After the first copy to the same party. Leave it empty to price every copy at the copy rate.

With an additional copy rate, each party’s first copy is at the copy rate. Empty means one party.

Each feed is billed per page. A schedule's feed tier counts every feed in the proceeding; this counts the feeds this invoice pays for. Empty means one.

Fill with the federal maximums

Federal court maximums, one example. They are ceilings for federal court transcripts, not a deposition rate card. Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, federal court reporting program, rates effective .

Fills the tier, original, copy, additional copy, and realtime rates and clears the multiplier. Your page count, copies, and fee stay.

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Transcript estimate, line by line
LineCalculationAmount
Original transcript pp × $ $
Realtime pp × $ $
Copy transcripts (number of copies) pp × $ $
Appearance fee Flat $
Estimated total$

Not included: Exhibit scanning or handling; rough draft, ASCII, or e-transcript. A schedule may bundle them or list them as their own lines.

This is an estimate. The reporter's or agency's written rate schedule governs.

How the lines add up.

Each per-page line is the page count times your rate. The expedite multiplier raises the original rate, and the copies too when you tick the box. The appearance fee is added once. Each line is rounded to the cent, and the total adds the rounded lines.

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How originals, copies, delivery tiers, and realtime are billed, with the federal schedule as one example: Court reporter per-page rates explained.

Built by the people who produce the record.

These tools are free and need no account. DepoStack is also building software for court reporters: Exhibits by DepoStack, Transcript by DepoStack and Video by DepoStack. What they mean for a freelance reporter.