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Cashiers

	Median Wage (USD, 2024)	Projected Job Openings (2024-2034)	Projected Growth (2024-2034)
National Statistics	$31190	542600	-9.9%
State Statistics	-	-	-
City Statistics	-	-	-

Statistics

National

State

City

State

City

$31190

Median Wage (USD, 2024)

542600

Projected Job Openings (2024-2034)

-9.9%

Projected Growth (2024-2034)

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.

Experience Requirements Overview

Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.
Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Education, Training and Experience

Required Level of Education: High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

Related Work Experience: N.A.

On-Site or In-Plant Training: Up to and including 1 month

On-the-Job Training: Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month

Detailed Work Activities

Explain technical product or service information to customers.
Answer customer questions about goods or services.
Clean work areas.
Monitor sales activities.
Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
Train sales personnel.
Supervise sales or support personnel.
Provide customers with general information or assistance.
Answer telephones to direct calls or provide information.
Stock products or parts.
Process sales or other transactions.
Issue money, credit, or vouchers.
Reconcile records of sales or other financial transactions.
Greet customers, patrons, or visitors.
Calculate costs of goods or services.
Calculate weights, volumes or other characteristics of materials.
Maintain records of sales or other business transactions.
Sell products or services.
Package objects for shipping.
Prepare outgoing shipments.
Prepare cash for deposit or disbursement.
Communicate with other workers to coordinate activities.
Record sales or transactions data.

Work Values

Achievement

Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

Working Conditions

Recognition

Relationships

Support

Independence

Tasks

Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
Greet customers entering establishments.
Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
Answer incoming phone calls.
Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
Help customers find the location of products.
Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
Compute and record totals of transactions.
Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
Sell tickets and other items to customers.
Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment.
Cash checks for customers.
Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.

Work Styles

Innovation

A tendency to be inventive, to be imaginative, and to adopt new perspectives on ways to accomplish work.

Innovation

Achievement Orientation

Intellectual Curiosity

Tolerance for Ambiguity

Initiative

Adaptability

Self-Confidence

Perseverance

Leadership Orientation

Humility

Sincerity

Empathy

Cooperation

Optimism

Social Orientation

Cautiousness

Attention to Detail

Dependability

Integrity

Stress Tolerance

Self-Control

Data Source: This page includes information from the O*NET 30.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. This page includes Employment Projections program, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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