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title: "Gambling Change Person and Booth Cashier"
description: "Exchange coins, tokens, and chips for patrons' money. May issue payoffs and obtain customer's signature on receipt. May operate a booth in the slot…"
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# Gambling Change Person and Booth Cashier

**Category:** Sales and Related · **SOC code:** 41-2012 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 41-2012.00

Exchange coins, tokens, and chips for patrons' money. May issue payoffs and obtain customer's signature on receipt. May operate a booth in the slot machine area and furnish change persons with money bank at the start of the shift, or count and audit money in drawers.

Also advertised as: Booth Cashier; Cage Cashier; Cashier; Casino Banker; Casino Cashier; Change Person; Slot Attendant; Slot Floor Person.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $36,220 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $17.41/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $24,460 to $60,330, with the middle half between $29,630 and $41,530
- **Total US employment:** 21,530
- **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:** -1.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 3,900 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 49/100 — 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 21,530 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $24,460 |
| 25th | $29,630 |
| 50th (median) | $36,220 |
| 75th | $41,530 |
| 90th | $60,330 |
| Mean (average) | $39,100 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AZ | $63,400 | $62,974 | 680 |
| TX | $62,400 | $64,292 | 910 |
| ND | $49,830 | $56,015 | 100 |
| NY | $48,110 | $44,579 | 830 |
| MD | $41,220 | $39,272 | 200 |
| MO | $39,130 | $43,087 | 210 |
| WA | $38,640 | $36,108 | 670 |
| CT | $38,350 | $37,014 | Not published by BLS |
| CO | $38,320 | $37,185 | 320 |
| IA | $38,230 | $43,561 | 400 |
| KY | $38,060 | $42,214 | 30 |
| MI | $37,910 | $39,401 | 1,210 |
| NJ | $37,850 | $34,787 | 340 |
| FL | $37,770 | $36,523 | 630 |
| CA | $37,350 | $33,734 | 4,360 |

19 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 34 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-change-person-and-booth-cashier/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/gambling-change-person-and-booth-cashier.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 22,000 in the 2025–2035 base year to 21,600 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 400 jobs, or -1.9%. Declining: -1.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 3,900 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## 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 or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 96.5% |
| Some College Courses | 2.4% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 1.2% |

## What the work involves

- Exchange money, credit, tickets, or casino chips and make change for customers.
- Count money and audit money drawers.
- Check identifications to verify age of players.
- Keep accurate records of monetary exchanges, authorization forms, and transaction reconciliations.
- Maintain cage security according to rules.
- Reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- 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
- Mathematics — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.8 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.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.6 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 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 2.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 2.6 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 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.3 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), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.36 |
| E — Enterprising | 4.19 |
| R — Realistic | 3.07 |
| S — Social | 2.43 |
| A — Artistic | 1.06 |
| I — Investigative | 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 | 87.1 |
| ESFJ | 81.2 |
| ISFJ | 78.5 |
| ISTJ | 77.2 |
| ENTJ | 57.9 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Gambling Cage Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-cage-worker) — median $37,580
- [Teller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/teller) — median $43,030
- [First-Line Supervisor of Gambling Services Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-gambling-services-workers) — median $63,820
- [Gambling and Sports Book Writer and Runner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-and-sports-book-writer-and-runner) — median $34,980
- [Cashier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cashier) — median $32,880
- [Gambling Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-manager) — median $93,220
- [Gambling Dealer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-dealer) — median $34,320
- [Gambling Surveillance Officer and Gambling Investigator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-surveillance-officer-and-gambling-investigator) — median $43,370
- [Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/bookkeeping-accounting-and-auditing-clerk) — median $50,670
- [New Accounts Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/new-accounts-clerk) — median $47,670

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 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, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **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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