Mid-Level

Money Counter

In the cash room of a bank, casino, or large retailer, the Money Counter handles physical currency at scale — verifying, sorting, packaging, balancing, and the careful documentation each step requires. The work is repetitive, time-pressured, and quietly consequential.

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Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
Enterprisingleading, persuading
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Job markets for Money Counters
Employment concentration · ~400 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Money Counter

A typical shift tends to involve opening cash deliveries or bag drops, machine-counting and verifying currency, balancing against records, packaging into rolls and straps for distribution or vault storage, and the steady documentation that tracks every transaction. Cameras and dual-control procedures shape every motion — cash work is heavily surveilled by design.

Coordination tends to be with vault and cash supervisors, security, the operations team that needs cash on the floor, and sometimes external armored carriers. The hardest part is often the no-mistakes nature of the work — a single short or over has to be reconciled, documented, and explained, and patterns of variance can become investigations. Speed matters, but accuracy matters more.

People who tend to thrive here are methodical, comfortable with repetitive precision, and unbothered by surveillance and dual-control workflows. If you crave variety or social interaction, the role can feel narrow. If you find satisfaction in a clean balance at the end of every shift, the role can be steady and respected within cash operations.

RelationshipsAbove avg
SupportModerate
IndependenceLower
AchievementLower
Working ConditionsLower
RecognitionLower
O*NET Work Values survey
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
INDUSTRIES PAYING ABOVE AVERAGE
1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Money Counters (SOC 41-2011.00, 43-3071.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
Also appears in: Sales
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$23K–$48K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
3.5M
U.S. Employment
-11.4%
10yr Growth
572K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Active ListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingService OrientationSocial PerceptivenessMonitoringReading ComprehensionService OrientationSocial PerceptivenessTime Management
O*NET OnLine · Bureau of Labor Statistics
41-2011.0043-3071.00

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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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