Cashiers
Also called Checkout clerk, Checkout associate, Front-end cashier, Grocery cashier, Retail cashier
In brief
In BLS's May surveys, cashiers peaked at 3.64 million in 2018. The May 2025 count, 3.09 million, is the lowest since those surveys began in 2003. Median pay was $32,880 a year in May 2025. The earliest figure here is a Census count of 48,000 from 1900, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for cashiers: Contactless / NFC payment, 2007 to 2020.
What the sources say
Official outlook
BLS projects employment to decline 6.5% from 2025 to 2035.
AI exposure studies
- 36% of this job's tasks are exposed to large language models. Not a forecast of job losses. Eloundou and others, 2023
- 0.97 estimated probability that the whole occupation could be computerised, over an unspecified number of years. Not a forecast of job losses. Frey and Osborne, 2013
Since the 2013 prediction
In 2013, Frey and Osborne put this job's probability of computerisation at 0.97. BLS counted 3,343,470 of these jobs in May 2013 and 3,089,410 in May 2025 (-8%, a change derived by Future History).
Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.
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Future History. (2026, October 11). Cashiers: jobs and pay since 1900 [Data set; data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35]. https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/41-2011
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≈ $32,037 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)
November 4, 1879: James Ritty and his brother John receive US Patent No. 221,360 for the "Incorruptible Cashier", the world's first mechanical cash register. Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio saloon owner, built the device to stop his bartenders from pocketing cash. He sold the business in 1881; John H. Patterson purchased the patents in 1883 and renamed the company the National Cash Register Company in 1884. Within two decades, NCR had sold hundreds of thousands of registers into US retail and food-service establishments. The register did not create the cashier role, there were store cashiers before 1879, but it created the modern job by defining the transaction sequence the cashier would execute for the next century.
NCR engineer Charles Kettering designs the first electric cash register: the Class 1000 machine, powered by an electric motor rather than a hand crank. The design remained in production for nearly 40 years with minimal changes and became the standard checkout register in American stores through the mid-20th century. Kettering left NCR in 1909 to join the automotive industry, where he invented the electric automobile starter and became one of the most prolific American inventors of the 20th century. The electric register he built at NCR was arguably the less famous of his two most consequential machines.
Bank of America launches the BankAmericard in 1958 via the "Fresno Drop": a mass mailing of 60,000 plastic credit cards to Fresno, California residents. This is the first general-purpose revolving credit card in the world. The cashier's job acquires a new layer of complexity: verifying cards, running imprinters, managing authorizations. By the 1970s the card-swipe is a standard part of every checkout transaction. The BankAmericard becomes Visa in 1976; Mastercard (originally Interbank/Master Charge) emerges as a competing network in 1966. The credit card transforms the checkout counter from a cash-only interface into a multi-tender platform that cashiers must navigate.
June 26, 1974, 8:01 a.m.: Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scans a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum across the glass plate of an NCR Electronic System 255 scanner, the first commercial UPC barcode scan in history. The price registers at 67 cents. Clyde Dawson, Marsh's head of R&D, deliberately chose the gum because he wanted to prove a barcode could be printed on something so small. The pack is now in the Smithsonian Institution. Sharon Buchanan's scan is the direct technological ancestor of the self-checkout kiosk, the Amazon Go sensor ceiling, and every contactless payment that will follow over the next fifty years.
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is founded through the merger of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America and the Retail Clerks International Union. The new union becomes the largest affiliate of the AFL-CIO, representing grocery, department store, and food-processing workers: the core employers of cashiers. The UFCW will spend the following four decades negotiating the terms under which self-checkout, scanning, and eventually AI-vision checkout are introduced in unionized retail environments. The tension between labor cost reduction (the employer motive) and job preservation (the union priority) defines the politics of cashier automation from 1979 onward.
August 5, 1992: Price Chopper supermarket in Clifton Park, New York installs the world's first commercial self-checkout system, a U-Scan machine developed by Dr. Howard Schneider and manufactured by Optimal Robotics of Montreal. The machines crash constantly at first, and customers are skeptical. Kroger begins deploying U-Scans in 1995; NCR introduces its FastLane self-checkout in 1998. The era of direct cashier substitution has begun, 18 years after Sharon Buchanan's first barcode scan in Troy.
BLS OEWS May 2015 records cashiers at 3,478,420 employed. In that month, retail salespersons (4.6 million) and cashiers (3.5 million) were the two most numerous occupational codes in the entire US economy, together making up nearly 6% of total US employment. This comes exactly as e-commerce is accelerating to become a meaningful fraction of total retail, and as self-checkout has become near-universal in major grocery and mass-merchandise chains.
January 22, 2018: Amazon opens Amazon Go to the public in Seattle, a 1,800-square-foot convenience store with no checkout lanes, no cashiers, and no registers. Ceiling cameras and shelf sensors track what customers pick up; purchases are charged automatically to the customer's Amazon account when they walk out. Amazon calls the technology "Just Walk Out." The store had been in employee testing since December 2016. Coverage is enormous: the cashierless future has arrived. Eight years later, Amazon will have closed every Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh store in the US. The intervening arc is the most instructive story about automation deployment economics in modern retail history.
By February 1, 2026, all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in the United States have closed. Amazon shifts its grocery strategy to expanding Whole Foods Market locations and growing online grocery delivery. The announcement, made January 27, 2026, comes six months after Amazon had removed Just Walk Out technology from most of its full-size Fresh grocery stores (April 2024). The total closure covered 72 US locations. The "Just Walk Out" technology itself continues: Amazon is licensing it to third parties including sports stadium concessions. The cashierless retail format has not been abandoned; it has been repositioned from a standalone consumer retail format to an enterprise B2B technology product deployed in controlled environments.
Will AI replace cashiers? What the research says
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What's changing day to day for cashiers
Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.
AI is taking this onScan customer purchases using a barcode scanner or register terminal, apply item-level promotions and loyalty pricing, total the transaction, and collect payment: the foundational checkout task that self-checkout terminals and cashierless ambient-intelligence stores now perform without a human operator for the majority of routine transactions.
Scan customer purchases using a barcode scanner or register terminal, apply item-level promotions and loyalty pricing, total the transaction, and collect payment: the foundational checkout task that self-checkout terminals and cashierless ambient-intelligence stores now perform without a human operator for the majority of routine transactions.[7],[2],[4]
This task is being automated at scale and the trend will not reverse. The career-protective move is not to become better at scanning faster: it is to develop the adjacent competencies that keep you employable in a store that has self-checkout: supervising the self-checkout bank, troubleshooting kiosk errors, and learning the loss-prevention and age-verification workflows that machines still cannot execute autonomously.
AI is taking this onAssist customers in Amazon Fresh, AiFi, or Standard Cognition ambient-intelligence stores, answering questions about the mobile app check-in process, directing customers on how items are tracked, managing entry gates for customers who cannot use the app or need age verification, and handling service exceptions that the automated system cannot resolve independently.
Assist customers in Amazon Fresh, AiFi, or Standard Cognition ambient-intelligence stores, answering questions about the mobile app check-in process, directing customers on how items are tracked, managing entry gates for customers who cannot use the app or need age verification, and handling service exceptions that the automated system cannot resolve independently.[12],[13]
In cashierless stores, the cashier role is already a store-service-associate role. The skill to cultivate here is broad retail competency (stocking, customer guidance, app troubleshooting) because the traditional transaction-processing function is gone. Cashierless deployments are most dense in convenience, airports, and stadiums; if you work at one, treat it as a training ground for retail operations skills.
AI is taking this onManage and support AI-vision checkout kiosks (Mashgin, Standard Cognition) that identify items by computer vision without barcodes, responding to kiosk error states, re-presenting items that the vision system could not identify, assisting customers with the unattended payment flow, and performing end-of-shift kiosk reconciliation.
Manage and support AI-vision checkout kiosks (Mashgin, Standard Cognition) that identify items by computer vision without barcodes, responding to kiosk error states, re-presenting items that the vision system could not identify, assisting customers with the unattended payment flow, and performing end-of-shift kiosk reconciliation.[14],[15]
Proficiency with vision-checkout kiosks positions you for the retail operations associate role that these systems create, not cashiering in the traditional sense, but kiosk management and service support. Airports, sports venues, and university campuses are the current deployment concentration; experience in these environments is increasingly marketable.
Where cashiers go next
Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.
- Retail Salespersons
- US median pay
- $35,410 (May 2025)
- BLS outlook 2025-35
- -0.3%
- Tellers
- US median pay
- $43,030 (May 2025)
- BLS outlook 2025-35
- -13.2%
- Customer Service Representatives
- US median pay
- $44,770 (May 2025)
- BLS outlook 2025-35
- -5.3%
What each move takes
Retail Salespersons
Retail salesperson is the most natural lateral move from cashiering: same store, same environment, no new credentials required. The key difference is moving from a passive transaction role to an active selling role: approaching customers, answering product questions, making recommendations, and building the kind of in-store rapport that online shopping cannot replicate. The displacement risk is genuinely lower for salespersons: commissioned and product-specialist retail roles are significantly harder to replace than transaction-processing roles because they require product knowledge, customer-reading ability, and persuasive conversation. BLS projects retail salesperson employment as roughly flat through 2033. The move is available internally at almost every retail employer: ask for cross-training in a department where product knowledge matters (electronics, sporting goods, cosmetics, home improvement).
- · Product knowledge depth in a specific department or category (electronics, outdoor gear, cosmetics, home improvement, automotive)
- · Consultative selling: asking questions to understand what the customer needs before recommending a product
- · Handling product objections and comparisons without being pushy
- · Using POS and inventory lookup systems to answer "do you have this in a different size/color/model" questions confidently
- · Upselling and accessory recommendation: the specific skill that drives commission and makes you valuable to management
How has the work of cashiers changed since 1840?
The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.
Open cash drawer + handwritten ledger (pre-register era)
Before James Ritty's invention, a store's cashier operated with a flat cash drawer, a ledger book, and their own arithmetic. Transactions were recorded by hand at the end of the day, or not at all. The post of "cashier" in this era was more like bookkeeper than register operator: it required literacy and numeracy, was associated with trust and some social standing, and was not yet the high-volume, low-skill work it would become after the mechanical register commoditized the function. Theft prevention relied entirely on supervision and character; no machine enforced the transaction record.
Mechanical cash register (Ritty 1879, NCR from 1884)
James Ritty patented the "Incorruptible Cashier" on November 4, 1879. John H. Patterson bought Ritty's patents in 1883 and renamed the company the National Cash Register Company in 1884; by the early 1900s NCR registers were in virtually every US retail and food-service establishment of any size. The register transformed the cashier's job in two ways: first, it mechanically enforced transaction recording, removing the embezzlement opportunity that had made the post precarious and the employer suspicious; second, it standardized the workflow into a repeatable machine-mediated sequence that could be performed by workers with very little training. NCR added the paper receipt and the cash drawer to the basic design, creating the transaction format that persisted for a century.
Effect on the workThe mechanical register commoditized the cashier role, reducing the skill and status requirement significantly. Before the register, the post required genuine arithmetic competence; after, it required knowing which keys to press. This transformation made the cashier workforce both larger (lower barriers to entry) and lower-paid (skills premium eliminated).
Electric cash register (NCR 1906, motor-driven, receipt-printing)
In 1906, NCR engineer Charles Kettering designed the first electric motor-driven cash register: the Class 1000 machine, which remained in production for decades with only minor changes. The electric register was faster, reduced the physical effort of operating the crank mechanism, and allowed for more reliable receipt printing. The design Kettering created at NCR was the template for the checkout lane in every American supermarket, variety store, and department store through the mid-20th century. The cashier operated the electric register standing, typically in a fixed lane position, for the entirety of a shift. The physical demands were significant: long hours standing on hard floors, repetitive arm movements, and high-pace customer throughput during busy periods.
Magnetic-stripe credit card + manual imprinter (BankAmericard 1958, mass adoption 1970s)
Bank of America launched the BankAmericard in 1958: the first general-purpose revolving credit card, precursor to Visa. More than 2 million Bank of America customers received the card via a mass mailing to Fresno, California. Mass consumer credit card adoption reached retail cashiers throughout the 1960s and 1970s via the manual imprinter ("knucklebuster"): a handheld device that pressed the raised card numbers onto a carbon-copy receipt. The cashier's job expanded: in addition to operating the register, they now had to run the imprinter, call a phone authorization number for large purchases, and manage the social complexity of declined transactions. Electronic POS terminals displaced the imprinter by the mid-1980s, but the credit-card workflow added a layer of complexity that persisted.
UPC barcode scanner (first commercial scan: Marsh Supermarket, Troy OH, June 26 1974)
At 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, cashier Sharon Buchanan scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum at a Marsh Supermarket checkout lane in Troy, Ohio, the world's first commercial UPC barcode scan, using an NCR Electronic System 255. Clyde Dawson, Marsh's Director of R&D, had deliberately chosen the gum to test whether a barcode could be printed on something so small. The pack is now in the Smithsonian. The scanner transformed the cashier's core skill: price memorization and manual key entry gave way to dragging items across a glass plate. Throughput per cashier increased substantially. The technology also laid the data infrastructure that would eventually enable self-checkout: the same barcode-to-price-database lookup that a cashier triggered with a scan could, in principle, be triggered by a customer.
Effect on the workScanner adoption in grocery dramatically increased throughput per cashier: studies in the early 1980s documented improvements in items-per-minute speed at checkout. This meant fewer cashiers were needed to serve the same customer volume, moderating employment growth in grocery even as overall retail expanded. The scanner is the technological root of the self-checkout era that followed several years later.
Electronic POS terminal + debit card (Verifone 1981, debit networks 1980s)
Verifone was founded in 1981 and introduced electronic POS card terminals that replaced the manual knucklebuster. Debit cards and POS networks (Cirrus launched 1982, Star 1984, Interlink 1985) enabled real-time point-of-sale debit authorization, adding another payment type to the cashier's workflow. By the late 1980s the cashier's transaction sequence had expanded considerably: scan items (barcode era), select payment method, swipe card, wait for authorization, print receipt. Each step was faster than its predecessor but the workflow was more complex. POS systems also integrated inventory management, enabling real-time stock depletion tracking: the backend infrastructure that would later power e-commerce order fulfillment from physical store inventory.
Self-checkout kiosk (first installation: Price Chopper, Clifton Park NY, August 1992)
The world's first commercial self-checkout system was installed in August 1992 at a Price Chopper supermarket in Clifton Park, New York, using a U-Scan system invented by Dr. Howard Schneider and commercialized by Optimal Robotics of Montreal. The machines went in, customers used them, and by the first accounts they crashed constantly. But the concept was viable: Kroger began deploying U-Scans in 1995; NCR introduced its FastLane self-checkout in 1998; and by the early 2000s Home Depot, Walmart, and Target were all rolling out self-checkout lanes. Home Depot had hundreds of stores with self-checkout by the end of Q3 2003, with tens of millions of transactions completed that quarter alone. Self-checkout is the first technology in the history of the cashier occupation that directly substitutes for the cashier's primary function rather than augmenting it.
Effect on the workSelf-checkout adoption at major grocery and mass-merchandise chains directly reduced cashier headcount per store. By the early 2010s, major grocery chains typically operated several self-checkout lanes per store that previously required dedicated cashier staffing. One attendant supervising several self-checkout lanes replaced several cashiers, though the same attendant also handled exceptions, age verification, and theft monitoring that a dedicated cashier would not. The net labor reduction per high-volume store was meaningful but not as dramatic as early projections suggested, because exception handling and loss prevention requirements scale with throughput.
Contactless / NFC payment (Visa payWave 2007, Apple Pay 2014)
Visa launched Visa payWave contactless payment in 2007; Apple Pay launched in October 2014 as the first mass-market NFC mobile wallet, enabling any iPhone 6 or later to complete a transaction with a tap. By 2023, one in three Visa face-to-face transactions in the US was contactless, up from roughly 1% in 2017. Contactless payment dramatically reduced transaction time at the register: tap-and-go is several seconds. Faster transactions enable higher throughput per lane, which means fewer cashiers are needed for the same customer volume. Contactless also reduced the social friction of self-checkout by making payment easier for customers who were hesitant about the technology, accelerating self-checkout adoption.
Effect on the workCOVID-19 became the inflection point: contactless payment transaction share spiked in 2020-21 as customers and retailers alike tried to minimize physical contact. Retailers who had been slow to deploy self-checkout accelerated installations during the pandemic, and contactless payment made those installations more palatable to customers who had previously struggled with the interface.
Cashierless store: Amazon Go (opened January 22, 2018; all US locations closed by February 2026)
Amazon Go opened to the public in Seattle on January 22, 2018: a convenience store with no checkout lanes and no cashiers, using computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning to charge customers automatically for whatever they picked up and carried out. The "Just Walk Out" technology was the most radical redesign of the cashier role since Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier: not an automation of the transaction but the elimination of it. The arc then reversed: Amazon closed eight stores in 2023, removed Just Walk Out from most Amazon Fresh grocery stores in April 2024, and announced in January 2026 that it would close all remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations. All stores were shuttered by February 1, 2026. The public rationale was a strategic shift toward Whole Foods and online grocery delivery. The structural explanation: the per-store infrastructure cost was extremely high, the format worked best in small office-district stores with controlled foot traffic, and customer satisfaction in high-traffic formats was not consistently better than a well-staffed human checkout experience.
Effect on the workAmazon Go never reached a scale sufficient to generate statistically detectable effects on BLS 41-2011 employment: the peak US fleet of many stores was rounding error against 3+ million cashiers nationally. The psychological effect on the cashier labor market and on retailers' medium-term planning was far larger than the actual headcount impact. Amazon's retreat has been widely interpreted as evidence that full cashierless format is harder to profitably deploy at scale than 2018 coverage suggested, but it does not imply that the conventional self-checkout and mobile-ordering pressure on cashier employment has reversed.
Mobile order-ahead + AI vision checkout (McDonald's / Starbucks kiosks, Mashgin, Standard Cognition, AiFi)
McDonald's touchscreen ordering kiosks, deployed across US locations from 2017-2019, allowed customers to order and pay without interacting with a cashier, converting the front-counter register role into a food-runner and exception-handler role. Starbucks mobile order-ahead (launched 2014) reduced cashier interaction for a large fraction of transactions to near zero. AI-vision checkout systems from Mashgin (coffeeshops and convenience stores), AiFi (stadiums, pop-ups), and Standard Cognition (grocery) began commercial deployment from 2018-2023. As of 2025-26, these systems have not achieved mass-market scale comparable to conventional self-checkout, but Walmart's Sparky AI checkout vision system and deployments at airport terminals and corporate cafeterias demonstrate the technology is commercially viable in controlled environments. The cashier role that survives the current decade will be more exception-handler and theft-prevention specialist than transaction processor.
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In other countries
The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.
Canada (NOC 65100)
- Employment, 2020
- 358,760, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021: number of persons with employment income in NOC 65100 Cashiers, Canada, reference year 2020. A recipients basis (anyone with employment income during the year), slightly broader than a point-in-time employed count. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- Median pay, 2020
- C$30,200, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021 (Table 98-10-0586): median employment income for NOC 65100 Cashiers, Canada, reference year 2020, full-year full-time workers (the basis comparable to the US OEWS full-time median). Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Australia (ANZSCO 6311)
- Employment, 2025
- 118,600, ABS Labour Force Survey Official statistic Report an errorABS Labour Force Survey (Detailed), table EQ08: employed persons in ANZSCO 6311 Checkout Operators and Office Cashiers, national (summed across sex and state/territory), annual average of 4 quarterly estimates.
- Median pay, 2025
- A$56,004, ABS Employee Earnings May 2025 Official statistic Report an errorAnnualised (x52) from A$1,077 median weekly earnings. ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025: median pay for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate, before tax. Surfaced via the Jobs and Skills Australia occupation profile.
View all 28 years of cited US data, each linked to its source
| Year | US employment | Annual pay (median unless marked) | Source | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 48,000 | n/a | Decennial Census 1900 Researched context | Report |
| 1940 | 344,000 | n/a | Decennial Census 1940 Researched context | Report |
| 1970 | 1,040,000 | n/a | Census (IPUMS) 1970 Researched context | Report |
| 1983 | 2,126,000 | $9,880 | BLS CPS 2002 Researched context | Report |
| 2000 | 3,338,840 | $14,460 | BLS OEWS 2000 Official statistic | Report |
| 2003 | 3,462,010 | $15,760 | BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statistic | Report |
| 2004 | 3,438,070 | $16,240 | BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statistic | Report |
| 2005 | 3,481,420 | $16,260 | BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statistic | Report |
| 2006 | 3,479,390 | $16,810 | BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statistic | Report |
| 2007 | 3,545,330 | $17,160 | BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statistic | Report |
| 2008 | 3,545,610 | $17,660 | BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statistic | Report |
| 2009 | 3,439,380 | $17,820 | BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statistic | Report |
| 2010 | 3,354,170 | $18,500 | BLS OEWS May 2010 (employment) Official statisticBLS OEWS May 2010 (pay) Official statistic | Report |
| 2011 | 3,314,870 | $18,820 | BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statistic | Report |
| 2012 | 3,314,010 | $18,970 | BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statistic | Report |
| 2013 | 3,343,470 | $18,960 | BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statistic | Report |
| 2014 | 3,398,330 | $19,060 | BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statistic | Report |
| 2015 | 3,478,420 | $19,310 | BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statistic | Report |
| 2016 | 3,541,010 | $20,180 | BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statistic | Report |
| 2017 | 3,564,920 | $21,030 | BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statistic | Report |
| 2018 | 3,635,550 | $22,430 | BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statistic | Report |
| 2019 | 3,596,630 | $23,650 | BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statistic | Report |
| 2020 | 3,333,100 | $25,020 | BLS OEWS May 2020 Official statistic | Report |
| 2021 | 3,318,020 | $27,260 | BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statistic | Report |
| 2022 | 3,296,040 | $28,240 | BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statistic | Report |
| 2023 | 3,298,660 | $29,720 | BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statistic | Report |
| 2024 | 3,148,030 | $31,190 | BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statistic | Report |
| 2025 | 3,089,410 | $32,880 | BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statistic | Report |
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