The record, by specialty
Court-determined expert witness rates, by specialty
"What do expert witnesses charge?" has a citable answer wherever courts have ruled on it often enough to band. Each page below is one specialty in one forum: the full band of hourly rates courts set, reduced, or approved — percentiles, denominators, and years stated — plus real orders described from the record. The bands are free. The paid document places your own rate in one of them, with the orders quoted, cited, and linked.
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 — a separate forum with its own rate practice, never pooled with the federal bands.
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Also on this page: see a complete sample exhibit, rendered from real records — and for litigation counsel: the same document argues a fee motion from either side.