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Gambling cage workers
In a gambling establishment, conduct financial transactions for patrons. Accept patron's credit application and verify credit references to provide check-cashing authorization or to establish house credit accounts. May reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books. May sell gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to patrons, or to other workers for resale to patrons. May convert gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to currency upon patron's request. May use a cash register or computer to record transaction.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 9% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by -3.1% by 2035, expected to shrink.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $37,580
- Job growth to 2035
- -3.1%
- Openings a year
- 1,200
- People doing it (2025)
- 15,000
- Usual route in
- High school diploma, then short on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Execute financial transactions
- Maintain safety or security
- Present research or technical information
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Reconcile financial data
- Monitor operations to ensure compliance with regulations or standards
- Stock supplies or products
What the work looks like
- Maintain confidentiality of customers' transactions.
- Follow all gaming regulations.
- Prepare bank deposits, balancing assigned funds as necessary.
- Maintain cage security.
- Cash checks and process credit card advances for patrons.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as electronic payment and credit systems replace the need for workers.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Court, municipal, and license clerksChanging shape, Index 13, +3.4%
- Crossing guards and flaggersHuman edge, growing, Index 57, +3.5%
- Bus drivers, transit and intercityHuman edge, growing, Index 68, +4.1%
- Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal serviceHuman edge, steady, Index 33, -7.2%
Also known as: Cage Cashier, Casino Cage Cashier, Casino Cashier, Vault Cashier, Cage and Players Club Rep (Cage and Players Club Representative), Casino Services Rep (Casino Services Representative), Dual Rate Banker, Gaming Cage Worker.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.