Career
Tellers
Help bank customers with deposits, withdrawals and accounts.
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- 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.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on information & systems, then persuasion & leadership?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Service Orientation.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
No degree beyond high school, though short-term on-the-job training is typical, for a median of $43,030 a year and 26,800 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- FinanceSee the degree →
- Banking and Financial Support ServicesCIP 52.0803
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- New Accounts Clerks$47,670 · -6.5%
- Cashiers$32,880 · -6.5%
- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks$50,080 · -7.4%
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$50,670 · -5.6%
- Brokerage Clerks$65,750 · -7.6%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.