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Tellers
Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.Mostly human for now
- 04Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Count 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.Mostly human for now
- 06Enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Examine checks for endorsements and to verify other information, such as dates, bank names, identification of the persons receiving payments, and the legality of the documents.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Resolve problems or discrepancies concerning customers' accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Prepare and verify cashier's checks.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Process transactions, such as term deposits, retirement savings plan contributions, automated teller transactions, night deposits, and mail deposits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss2%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
54%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 80% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 92% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.
- 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.