Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
Exchange coins, tokens, and chips for patrons' money. May issue payoffs and obtain customer's signature on receipt. May operate a booth in the slot machine area and furnish change persons with money bank at the start of the shift, or count and audit money in drawers.
Most important skills
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Coordination
- Service Orientation
- Mathematics
- Critical Thinking
Key knowledge
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- English Language
- Public Safety and Security
- Administrative
- Computers and Electronics
- Law and Government
- Psychology
What the work involves
- Count money and audit money drawers.
- Keep accurate records of monetary exchanges, authorization forms, and transaction reconciliations.
- Maintain cage security according to rules.
- Reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books.
- Exchange money, credit, tickets, or casino chips and make change for customers.
- Check identifications to verify age of players.
- Listen for jackpot alarm bells and issue payoffs to winners.
- Obtain customers' signatures on receipts when winnings exceed the amount held in a slot machine.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Conventional, Enterprising, Realistic.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (96.5% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (45.6%)
- On-the-job training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month (73.7%)
- 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 Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers 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 90% of occupations compared | 87% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Very high | Higher on dealing with the public than 83% of occupations compared | 65% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Very low | Lower on teamwork than 86% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very low | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 96% of occupations compared | 34% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Very low | Lower on time pressure than 83% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 80% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very high | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 99% of occupations compared | 67% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Consequence of error | Low | Lower on consequence of error than 71% of occupations compared | 35% of surveyed respondents chose “Not serious at all” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very low
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very high
- Consequence of error: 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: 0%
- Contact with others most of the time: 13.06%
- Constant contact with others: 86.94%
n = 30, Incumbent 08/2019
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 4.77%
- Fairly important: 8.96%
- Important: 5.04%
- Very important: 16.34%
- Extremely important: 64.89%
n = 30, Incumbent 08/2019
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 6.46%
- Fairly important: 19.47%
- Important: 16.28%
- Very important: 16.35%
- Extremely important: 41.44%
n = 30, Incumbent 08/2019
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 11.07%
- Very little freedom: 17.11%
- Limited freedom: 29.75%
- Some freedom: 33.58%
- A lot of freedom: 8.48%
n = 29, Incumbent 08/2019
Time pressure
- Never: 35.82%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 5.31%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 0%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 2.46%
- Every day: 56.41%
n = 30, Incumbent 08/2019
Conflict situations
- Never: 12.64%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 16.12%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 18.06%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 29.8%
- Every day: 23.37%
n = 29, Incumbent 08/2019
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 1.57%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 2.73%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 28.87%
- Every day: 66.83%
n = 29, Incumbent 08/2019
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 35.4%
- Fairly serious: 13.88%
- Serious: 24.38%
- Very serious: 12.59%
- Extremely serious: 13.75%
n = 30, Incumbent 08/2019
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