As of June 2026, Cashiers has an AI-exposure score of 53/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Cashiers
More exposed than 41% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$32,880. About 542,600 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Sales roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
- Answer incoming phone calls.
- Compute and record totals of transactions.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
- Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
- Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
- Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
- Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
- Help customers find the location of products.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (55%).
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Cashiers — median pay by US state (BLS OEWS, USD)
Median annual wage, in USD. US national: US$32,880. More states are being added.