Free rate benchmarks
Court-determined expert witness rates by specialty
"What do expert witnesses charge?" has a checkable answer wherever courts have ruled on it often enough to chart. Each page below covers one specialty in one forum: the full band of hourly rates courts set, reduced, or approved, with percentiles, denominators, and years stated, plus real court orders described from the record. The bands are free. The paid exhibit places your own rate inside one, with the court orders quoted, cited, and linked to the public docket.
U.S. federal courts
Rates from written orders of the federal courts, where deposition-fee disputes under Rule 26(b)(4)(E) put expert rates in front of judges.
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)
Published fee decisions of the special masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the judges who decide vaccine-injury claims. A separate forum with its own rate practice; we never pool it with the federal bands.
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Also: see a complete sample, rendered from real records. For litigation counsel: the same document argues a fee motion from either side.