Occupation Profile for Cashiers
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. Usually involves use of electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. Often involved in processing credit or debit card transactions and validating checks.
Signficant Points
- Cashiers need little or no work experience, and are trained on the job.
- Overall employment is projected to decline; however, job growth will be strong for gaming cashiers.
- Opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs are expected to be good because of the need to replace the large number of workers who leave cashier jobs.
- Many cashiers start at minimum wage.
Tasks
- Core — Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Core — Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Core — Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas.
- Core — Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- Core — Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
Activities
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.