Amusement and Recreation Attendants
Perform a variety of attending duties at amusement or recreation facility. May schedule use of recreation facilities, maintain and provide equipment to participants of sporting events or recreational pursuits, or operate amusement concessions and rides.
Most important skills
- Speaking
- Service Orientation
- Active Listening
- Social Perceptiveness
- Monitoring
- Coordination
- Critical Thinking
- Judgment and Decision Making
Key knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Public Safety and Security
- Administration and Management
- Sales and Marketing
- Computers and Electronics
- Communications and Media
- Mathematics
What the work involves
- Provide information about facilities, entertainment options, and rules and regulations.
- Record details of attendance, sales, receipts, reservations, or repair activities.
- Monitor activities to ensure adherence to rules and safety procedures, or arrange for the removal of unruly patrons.
- Sell tickets and collect fees from customers.
- Keep informed of shut-down and emergency evacuation procedures.
- Direct patrons to rides, seats, or attractions.
- Maintain inventories of equipment, storing and retrieving items and assembling and disassembling equipment as necessary.
- Clean sporting equipment, vehicles, rides, booths, facilities, or grounds.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Conventional, Social, Realistic.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Less than a High School Diploma (64.2% of respondents)
- Related experience
- None (88.7%)
- On-the-job training
- None or short demonstration (49.5%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Amusement and Recreation Attendants is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 95% of occupations compared | 96% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Very high | Higher on dealing with the public than 98% of occupations compared | 91% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Moderate | Lower on teamwork than 57% of occupations compared | 66% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very low | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 89% of occupations compared | — |
| Time pressure | Very low | Lower on time pressure than 99% of occupations compared | 47% of surveyed respondents chose “Never” |
| Conflict situations | Moderate | Lower on conflict situations than 51% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a year or more but not every month” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very high | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 82% of occupations compared | 46% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Consequence of error | Very low | Lower on consequence of error than 88% of occupations compared | 44% of surveyed respondents chose “Not serious at all” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very low
- Conflict situations: moderate
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very high
- Consequence of error: very low
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 1.76%
- Contact with others most of the time: 2.04%
- Constant contact with others: 96.2%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 0.06%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 6.15%
- Very important: 2.35%
- Extremely important: 91.44%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 13.57%
- Fairly important: 1.18%
- Important: 5.15%
- Very important: 13.97%
- Extremely important: 66.13%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 17.67%
- Limited freedom: 20.9%
- Some freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- A lot of freedom: 3.73%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Time pressure
- Never: 47.11%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 16.78%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 29.91%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 3.59%
- Every day: 2.6%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Conflict situations
- Never: 3.06%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 41.15%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 29.95%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 22.2%
- Every day: 3.64%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0.01%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 14.06%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 31.83%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 46.29%
- Every day: 7.81%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 44.24%
- Fairly serious: 29.87%
- Serious: 4.1%
- Very serious: 12.89%
- Extremely serious: 8.89%
n = 24, Incumbent 08/2020
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