here's the excerpt from CNN's more surprising 6-figure jobs's article:
Broadcast captioners: Those real-time captions you see on the screen of live television programs, such as a news shows, are provided by broadcast captioners.
Most typically, they might earn $50-to-$100 for every programming hour they caption and they work for companies hired by networks to provide the captioning, said Kathy DiLorenzo, director of reporter and captioner relations at VITAC, a captioning company.
Top captioners at VITAC earn between $60,000 and $120,000 a year with benefits, DiLorenzo said.
But to make that $120,000 a year, an employee might caption 30-to-40 hours of programs a week, which does not include the preparation time they need to make sure their software and equipment are ready to handle the content of a broadcast.
As with court reporters, the ability to concentrate and the need for physical stamina is key to provide real-time captions for that many hours of live television.
Unlike court reporters, though, captioners don't need to be on-site if they have the proper equipment at home, which is necessary if you're an independent contractor. If you do work independently, you'll probably need to invest about $18,000 to get the right computers and software, DiLorenzo said.
Typically, people wishing to become broadcast captioners will need at least three years of full-time education, unless they're already court reporters, in which case they might need a year of retraining, DiLorenzo said.
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so, these peepos should thank us, the peepos of deaf community, for providing these new jobs. i wonder what should they do to pay us back? donating their time to make CC for porn movies? i truly find porn movies pretty much boring considering that i can't follow its plot. the characters are like machines, repeating all the sexual actions over and over again. i know that we the deafies can pick up from their facial expressions, but what i'd love to see is the captions of nice, vivid details of their moanings and rants. that would definitely generate more $$$ into porn businesses and they'd finally get the drift and start to hire more captioners.
well, i guess i'm dreaming in these days right now...
Unbelievable... Six-figure salaries for our captioners? This doesn't help our lack of captioning when it comes to programming options. Is there a shortage of captioners or what? *scoff*
Posted by: Peep on December 12, 2003 01:00 PMbe patient, peep. i truly find this job very daunting task to do. i had a captioner for my classes before, and she was elaborating on how much (as well as hefty too) of training she had to go through. it takes lots of training to make one hell of a captioner. i have their huge respects... i don't think not many people know about this kind of job though.
Posted by: gabe on December 12, 2003 01:30 PM