Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
Exchange coins, tokens, and chips for patrons' money. May issue payoffs and obtain customer's signature on receipt. May operate a booth in the slot machine area and furnish change persons with money bank at the start of the shift, or count and audit money in drawers.
21,530 people do this job in the US. $36,220 a year.
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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, 45%. Today's estimate: 48%.
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 . 13 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep accurate records of monetary exchanges, authorization forms, and transaction reconciliations.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 25% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books.Done daily by most who do it. | 17% | 1.1 h25 min to 2.1 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Count money and audit money drawers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 14% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Maintain cage security according to rules.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 12% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Accept credit applications and verify credit references to provide check-cashing authorization or to establish house credit accounts.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Clean casino areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Listen for jackpot alarm bells and issue payoffs to winners.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Exchange money, credit, tickets, or casino chips and make change for customers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 3 min1 min to 8 min | Stays with people | |
| Furnish change persons with a money bank at the start of each shift.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Obtain customers' signatures on receipts when winnings exceed the amount held in a slot machine.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 7 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Check identifications to verify age of players.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 3 min1 min to 7 min | Stays with people | |
| Sell gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to patrons, or to other workers for resale to patrons.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 2% | 3 min1 min to 8 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
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