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Occupation

Tellers

Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.

75 AI exposure
35 Human advantage
48 Market demand
57 AI leverage

Is Tellers a safe career from AI?

Tellers scores 75 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 35, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 48 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 13.2% over ten years.

What Tellers pay

The median wage is $39,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,420 and the upper quarter over $45,550. About 339,340 people do this work in the United States.

Where Tellers can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Personal Financial Advisors 82% of the skills carry over $102k median
Insurance Underwriters 84% of the skills carry over $80k median
Veterinarians 75% of the skills carry over $126k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 78% of the skills carry over $94k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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