Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.

“Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.” is a core task performed by Tellers. Among the occupation's 29 rated tasks, workers place it 29th by importance (#1 most important). About 100% 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.

• Calculate financial data. in Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

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 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips. · importance 4.8
• Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds. · importance 4.8
• Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct. · importance 4.8
• 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. · importance 4.7
• Enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts. · importance 4.7
• Examine 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. · importance 4.7
• Prepare and verify cashier's checks. · importance 4.6
• Resolve problems or discrepancies concerning customers' accounts. · importance 4.6
• Process transactions, such as term deposits, retirement savings plan contributions, automated teller transactions, night deposits, and mail deposits. · importance 4.6
• Answer telephones and assist customers with their questions. · importance 4.6
• Count, verify, and post armored car deposits. · importance 4.5
• Identify transaction mistakes when debits and credits do not balance. · importance 4.5
• Carry out special services for customers, such as ordering bank cards and checks. · importance 4.4
• Sort and file deposit slips and checks. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Tellers 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-2549,
  title  = {Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.},
  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-2549}
}