Tellers
SOC Code: 43-3071
Tellerss balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 69.8/100, this role has moderate resilience to automation. Key skills include Active Listening, Active Listening, Critical Thinking.
AI-Proof Score: 69.8 — High
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Median Salary
$39,340
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Job Growth
-12.9%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Active Listening
- •Critical Thinking
- •Speaking
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Service Orientation
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Monitoring
Common Tasks
- ✓Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.
- ✓Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.
- ✓Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.
- ✓Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds.
- ✓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.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation