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Cashiers

	Median Wage (USD, 2024)	Projected Job Openings (2023-2033)	Projected Growth (2023-2033)
National Statistics	$31,190	565600	-10.6%
State Statistics	-	-	-
City Statistics	-	-	-

Statistics

National

State

City

State

City

$31,190

Median Wage (USD, 2023)

565600

Projected Job Openings (2023-2033)

-10.6%

Projected Growth (2023-2033)

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 Two: Some Preparation Needed
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.

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.
Issue money, credit, or vouchers.
Process sales or other transactions.
Explain technical product or service information to customers.
Answer customer questions about goods or services.
Issue money, credit, or vouchers.
Calculate weights, volumes or other characteristics of materials.
Reconcile records of sales or other financial transactions.
Calculate costs of goods or services.
Calculate costs of goods or services.
Maintain records of sales or other business transactions.
Sell products or services.
Maintain records of sales or other business transactions.
Package objects for shipping.
Prepare outgoing shipments.
Prepare cash for deposit or disbursement.
Process sales or other transactions.
Communicate with other workers to coordinate activities.
Maintain records of sales or other business transactions.
Monitor sales activities.
Record sales or transactions data.
Provide customers with general information or assistance.

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

Achievement/Effort

Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Persistence

Initiative

Leadership

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self-Control

Stress Tolerance

Adaptability/Flexibility

Dependability

Attention to Detail

Integrity

Independence

Innovation

Analytical Thinking

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