Cashiers
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
3,089,410 people do this job in the US. $32,880 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 30%
- 0%
- 70%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 14%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 30%. Today's estimate: 30%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 28 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.Done daily by most who do it. | 11% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 13 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 29 min | Stays with people | |
| Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Answer incoming phone calls.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 3 min2 min to 7 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 2 min1 min to 4 min | Stays with people | |
| Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).