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title: "Cashier"
description: "Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May…"
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Cashier

**Category:** Sales and Related · **SOC code:** 41-2011 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 41-2011.00

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.

Also advertised as: Cage Cashier; Cashier; Center Aisle Cashier; Central Aisle Cashier; Checker; Customer Assistant; Sales Associate; Store Attendant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $32,880 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $15.81/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $24,530 to $40,410, with the middle half between $28,720 and $36,330
- **Total US employment:** 3,089,410
- **Typical entry education:** No formal credential
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -9.9% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 542,600 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 44/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 3,089,410 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $24,530 |
| 25th | $28,720 |
| 50th (median) | $32,880 |
| 75th | $36,330 |
| 90th | $40,410 |
| Mean (average) | $33,180 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $38,880 | $35,377 | 6,060 |
| WA | $38,720 | $36,183 | 61,050 |
| CA | $37,100 | $33,508 | 336,110 |
| CO | $36,870 | $35,778 | 51,670 |
| HI | $36,780 | $33,451 | 10,780 |
| AK | $36,130 | $35,297 | 5,810 |
| VT | $35,720 | $36,465 | 7,030 |
| CT | $35,550 | $34,311 | 30,920 |
| MA | $35,520 | $33,586 | 58,880 |
| NY | $35,500 | $32,894 | 158,890 |
| OR | $35,300 | $34,152 | 37,660 |
| ME | $34,930 | $35,992 | 14,240 |
| RI | $34,860 | $34,083 | 9,260 |
| MN | $34,620 | $35,104 | 58,190 |
| AZ | $34,600 | $34,367 | 72,570 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/cashier/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/cashier.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 3,157,200 in the 2024–2034 base year to 2,843,600 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 313,600 jobs, or -9.9%. Declining: -9.9% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 542,600 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** No formal educational credential (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Short-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma | 44.3% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 37.3% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 9.2% |
| Some College Courses | 9.2% |

## What the work involves

- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- Answer incoming phone calls.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- 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.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Service Orientation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Sales and Marketing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.21 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.62 |
| R — Realistic | 2.90 |
| S — Social | 2.59 |
| I — Investigative | 1.00 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 86.2 |
| ESFJ | 81.8 |
| ISFJ | 80.9 |
| ISTJ | 77.4 |
| ENTJ | 55.8 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ, ESFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Counter and Rental Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerk) — median $41,300
- [Teller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/teller) — median $43,030
- [Customer Service Representative](https://nuecareer.com/careers/customer-service-representative) — median $44,770
- [Retail Salesperson](https://nuecareer.com/careers/retail-salesperson) — median $35,410
- [First-Line Supervisor of Retail Sales Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-retail-sales-workers) — median $48,520
- [Gambling Change Person and Booth Cashier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-change-person-and-booth-cashier) — median $36,220
- [Postal Service Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/postal-service-clerk) — median $62,130
- [Pharmacy Aide](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pharmacy-aide) — median $37,680
- [Order Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/order-clerk) — median $46,170
- [Gambling Cage Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-cage-worker) — median $37,580

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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