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Collect fares or payments

Work activity · O*NET

Collect fares or payments is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Monitoring and Controlling Resources. 52 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Collect deposits, payments or fees
  • Collect payments for goods or services
  • Collect fares or payment from customers

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 100.0% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 13th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Tellers 3
Bill and Account Collectors 2
Driver/Sales Workers 2
Lodging Managers 2
Postal Service Mail Carriers 2
Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 2
Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes 1
Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants 1
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 1
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 1
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers 1
Compliance Officers 1
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks 1
Credit Analysts 1
Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks 1
Customer Service Representatives 1
Disc Jockeys, Except Radio 1
Flight Attendants 1
Food Service Managers 1
Gambling Managers 1
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 1
Home Appliance Repairers 1
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks 1
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks 1
Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 1
Library Assistants, Clerical 1
Library Technicians 1
Light Truck Drivers 1
Loan Interviewers and Clerks 1
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 1
Mechanical Door Repairers 1
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 1
New Accounts Clerks 1
Office Clerks, General 1
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 1
Online Merchants 1
Order Clerks 1
Parking Attendants 1
Parking Enforcement Workers 1
Postal Service Clerks 1

Showing 40 of 52 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 39 occupations in occupations that perform Collect fares or payments.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants Mechanical Door Repairers Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Postal Service Mail Carriers Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers Light Truck Drivers Flight Attendants Postal Service Clerks Library Assistants, Clerical Postmasters and Mail Superintendents Library Technicians Lodging Managers Compliance Officers Online Merchants Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants New Accounts Clerks Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Court, Municipal, and License Clerks AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Collect fares or payments., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Collect fares or payments." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/collect-fares-or-payments

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Collect fares or payments. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/collect-fares-or-payments

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-collect-fares-or-payments,
  title  = {Collect fares or payments},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/collect-fares-or-payments}
}

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