Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
Install, service, adjust, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, pinball machines, or slot machines.
26,410 people do this job in the US. $47,450 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 15%
- 0%
- 85%
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, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 15%. Today's estimate: 15%.
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 . 18 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjust and repair coin, vending, or amusement machines and meters and replace defective mechanical and electrical parts, using hand tools, soldering irons, and diagrams.Done daily by most who do it. | 19% | 2.1 h38 min to 4.2 h | Stays with people | |
| Collect coins and bills from machines, prepare invoices, and settle accounts with concessionaires.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 13% | 33 min17 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Fill machines with products, ingredients, money, and other supplies.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 12% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Make service calls to maintain and repair machines.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Inspect machines and meters to determine causes of malfunctions and fix minor problems such as jammed bills or stuck products.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Keep records of merchandise distributed and money collected.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Clean and oil machine parts.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Disassemble and assemble machines, according to specifications and using hand and power tools.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 6% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Record transaction information on forms or logs, and notify designated personnel of discrepancies.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Replace malfunctioning parts, such as worn magnetic heads on automatic teller machine (ATM) card readers.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Test machines to determine proper functioning.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Maintain records of machine maintenance and repair.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now |
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.
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From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
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Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
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