Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.

“Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.” is a supplemental task performed by Cashiers. Among the occupation's 29 rated tasks, workers place it 25th by importance (#5 most important). About 66% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Reconcile financial data. in Processing Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits. · importance 4.8
• Greet customers entering establishments. · importance 4.7
• Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales. · importance 4.7
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers. · importance 4.7
• Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons. · importance 4.5
• Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints. · importance 4.5
• Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately. · importance 4.5
• Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners. · importance 4.4
• Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts. · importance 4.4
• Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices. · importance 4.4
• Compute and record totals of transactions. · importance 4.4
• Answer incoming phone calls. · importance 4.4
• Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies. · importance 4.4
• Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Cashiers page.

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-2402,
  title  = {Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-2402}
}