Tellers
Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.
329,480 people do this job in the US. $43,030 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 35%
- 5%
- 60%
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, 35%. Today's estimate: 35%.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count currency, coins, and checks received, by hand or using currency-counting machine, to prepare them for deposit or shipment to branch banks or the Federal Reserve Bank.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Identify transaction mistakes when debits and credits do not balance.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Process transactions, such as term deposits, retirement savings plan contributions, automated teller transactions, night deposits, and mail deposits.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Receive and count daily inventories of cash, drafts, and travelers' checks.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 21 min8 min to 42 min | Stays with people | |
| Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 6 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Sort and file deposit slips and checks.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Explain, promote, or sell products or services, such as travelers' checks, savings bonds, money orders, and cashier's checks, using computerized information about customers to tailor recommendations.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min4 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Resolve problems or discrepancies concerning customers' accounts.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Process and maintain records of customer loans.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 33 min13 min to 1.1 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Perform clerical tasks, such as typing, filing, and microfilm photography.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 4% | 17 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 50 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.
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Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
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- Nondepository Credit Intermediation2,690 people
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Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).