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.
U.S. Workers
21,930
Median Salary
$34,810
10-Year Growth
-6.4%
Annual Openings
4,000
Typical entry: No formal educational credential
12 of 13 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Calculate the value of chips won or lost by players.
AI: Fully automatable - Calculating the monetary value of chips won or lost is a straightforward computational task that AI/software can fully perform accurately.
Reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books.
AI: Fully automatable - Reconciliation of daily transaction summaries to accounting records is a data task that AI and accounting software can fully automate with high reliability.
Accept credit applications and verify credit references to provide check-cashing authorization or to establish house credit accounts.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can process credit applications, query credit bureaus and references, perform identity/KYC checks, and make authorization decisions when integrated with financial systems.
Keep accurate records of monetary exchanges, authorization forms, and transaction reconciliations.
AI: Partial - AI can record and reconcile monetary transactions and manage digital authorization workflow, but physical authorization forms, legal responsibility, and some exception handling still require human oversight.
Exchange money, credit, and casino chips, and make change for customers.
AI: Partial - Automated kiosks and machines can exchange cash/credit and dispense chips, but complete replacement of human cashiers across all contexts (security, exceptions, complex customer interactions) is not yet universal.
Maintain cage security according to rules.
AI: Partial - AI can substantially assist cage security via monitoring, access control, and anomaly detection, but maintaining security per rules often requires human judgment, physical intervention, and policy enforcement.
Count money and audit money drawers.
AI: Partial - Automated cash-counting hardware and software can accurately count and audit money, but physical drawer handling, exception resolution, and chain-of-custody checks still need human involvement in many operations.
Sell gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to patrons, or to other workers for resale to patrons.
AI: Partial - Sales of chips/tokens/tickets can be automated by kiosks and POS systems, yet many venues still rely on attendants for high-value, regulated, or exception transactions.
Obtain customers' signatures on receipts when winnings exceed the amount held in a slot machine.
AI: Partial - Digital signature capture and verification can be automated, but legal, identity-verification requirements and customers who prefer or require wet signatures mean the task is not universally fully automatable.
Work in and monitor an assigned area on the casino floor where slot machines are located.
AI: Partial - AI can monitor casino floors via cameras and analytics to detect anomalies but cannot perform required physical on‑floor interactions or cash handling.
Listen for jackpot alarm bells and issue payoffs to winners.
AI: Partial - Audio detection can recognize jackpot alarms and trigger workflows, but issuing payoffs requires identity verification, secure cash handling, and often human oversight, so full automation is partial.
Perform minor repairs on slot machines, such as clearing coin jams.
AI: Partial - AI can diagnose slot machine faults and provide step‑by‑step guidance, but performing physical repairs like clearing coin jams generally requires human technicians.
Furnish change persons with a money bank at the start of each shift.
AI: Not automatable - Furnishing a physical money bank is a manual cash‑handling task that AI cannot perform without physical robotic infrastructure.