Cashiers
Also called: Auction Clerk, Bottle Booth Attendant, Box Office Attendant, Bridge Toll Collector, Cage Cashier, Cart Attendant, Cash Checker, Cash Office Worker
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions.
What cashiers do
Typical 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.
Typical path into the job (BLS)
Cashiers salary
The median annual wage for cashiers is $32,880 (BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025–35, national). The lowest 10 percent earn less than $24,530 and the highest 10 percent earn more than $40,410. The mean annual wage is $33,180.
The mean hourly wage of $15.00 is 2.1× the federal minimum wage of $7.25. State minimums are higher in most large states. Minimum wage by state →
How does your pay compare with people your age?
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Pay by percentile
Annual wage percentiles from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). Percentiles are a good proxy for pay by experience.
Projected pay for Cashiers (3, 5 and 10 years)est.
Today $32,880 → in 3 years $35,400 → in 5 years $37,200 → in 10 years $42,000 (10-year range $36,100–$48,800). The model assumes pay growth of +2.5% per year.
What drives the annual growth rate
Projected pay = current pay × (1 + annual growth)^years. The annual growth rate starts from a base wage-growth rate and adds or subtracts labor demand (BLS projected employment growth), wage momentum and AI replacement risk for each occupation. Projections are not guarantees. How it is calculated →
Outlook score for Cashiers
Each component is a percentile rank among all occupations in the same country (0–100). Weights: labor demand 25, wage momentum / openings 15, pay level 15, AI resistance 25, aging workforce 10 (Japan only), entry barrier 10.
Will AI replace Cashiers? AI replacement risk
How AI is changing this job
A written analysis for this occupation is being prepared.
AI replacement risk compares the parts of a job that are easy to hand to AI or software (processing information, documentation, repetitive computer work) with the parts that are hard to automate (physical work, working closely with people, judgment in unpredictable settings), using O*NET work activities, work context, skills and knowledge. The result is a relative position among all occupations in the country, scaled to 0–100%. Methodology →
Labor demand for Cashiers
Employment projections are from the BLS Employment Projections program (2025–35). Annual openings include both new jobs and replacement of workers who leave the occupation.
The same job in Japan
| Cashiers United States | スーパーレジ係 Japan | 駅構内売店店員 Japan | コンビニエンスストア店員 Japan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median / average pay | $32,880 | ¥3.85M ≈ $24,468 | ¥3.85M ≈ $24,468 | ¥3.85M ≈ $24,468 |
| Pay in 10 years (est.) | $42,000 | ¥5.25M | ¥5.26M | ¥5.27M |
| Outlook score | 32 | 50 | 51 | 52 |
| AI replacement risk | 49% Moderate | 45% Moderate | 44% Moderate | 40% Low |
| Workers | 3.1M | — | — | — |
Matched by occupation (SOC code). Yen converted at 157.25 JPY/USD for reference; Japanese figures are averages, U.S. figures are medians, and the surveys define occupations differently.
Skills, education and requirements for Cashiers
Key skills
O*NET skill level ratings (0–7).
Key knowledge areas
What the work involves
Important abilities
Education of workers
Training before entry
Related work experience
Job Zone 2 — some preparation needed (O*NET)
Difficulty of entry: ★☆☆☆☆ Easy to enter (from education, training, experience and Job Zone)
How to become cashiers
A step-by-step guide for this occupation is being prepared. The education, training and experience data above show the typical path.
Career path and how to earn more as cashiers
Career-path guidance is being prepared. Pay by percentile is shown in the Pay section.