{
  "source": "Cooked Index — occupational AI risk register",
  "page": "https://cookedindex.com/jobs/gambling-change-persons-and-booth-cashiers/",
  "methodology": "https://cookedindex.com/methodology",
  "notice": "Verdicts are re-examined as evidence accumulates. Re-fetch before relying on this; the page above always carries the current score.",
  "scored_at": "2026-08-11",
  "model": "claude-opus-5",
  "occupation": {
    "title": "Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers",
    "soc_code": "41-2012",
    "category": "Sales",
    "us_employment": 21530,
    "median_annual_wage": 36220
  },
  "verdict": "COOKED",
  "risk_resistance": 27,
  "contested": false,
  "near_boundary": false,
  "dimensions": {
    "task_resistance": 5,
    "embodiment": 8,
    "liability_shield": 5,
    "trust_premium": 5,
    "judgment_accountability": 4
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "task_resistance": "A TITO kiosk already does the ticket redemption, the bill validator already does the change, and the cage's drawer count runs off a computerized cash-tracking system — the residual 5 points come from hopper jams, hand-pay verification, and walking a W-2G over to a winner, not from anything that requires a person at the window.",
    "embodiment": "You are standing for eight hours on a casino floor or locked in a cage, hauling coin bags and chip racks and keying open a drop box — real physical work, but it happens in a climate-controlled, camera-covered building on a fixed route, which is what separates an 8 from the 14+ of someone working an unpredictable outdoor site.",
    "liability_shield": "A state gaming board key-employee or non-key registration means fingerprints, a criminal-history check, and the power to revoke your badge — it gates who may stand at the cage, but no one sues you personally for a miscounted fill; the casino's compliance officer and Title 31 program owner absorb that.",
    "trust_premium": "Regulars may know your name and you are the face when a machine swallows a twenty, but the player came for the game, picks whichever window is open, and a cashless wallet on their phone replaces you without them noticing — the relationship is incidental to the transaction, not the reason for it.",
    "judgment_accountability": "Nearly everything is written down: CTR at $10,000 in cash-in or cash-out, MTL logging above $3,000, jackpots over $1,200 to the slot attendant, disputes escalated to a shift supervisor with surveillance pulling the tape — your call is whether to escalate, not what the answer is."
  },
  "rationale": "The core work — exchanging cash for chips or tokens, redeeming TITO tickets, counting drawers, processing jackpot payouts and filling out CTR paperwork — has already been largely absorbed by ticket-in/ticket-out kiosks, cashless wallets, and automated bill validators, which is why this occupation has been shrinking for two decades. Physical presence on the floor and state gaming-board licensing provide a thin buffer, but the license is a background-check registration, not a professional liability shield. What survives is exception handling: disputed payouts, suspicious-activity judgment calls, and the guest-facing moment when a machine eats someone's money.",
  "outlook": "Cashless gaming and kiosk redemption keep compressing headcount through the 2030s; the jobs that remain are supervisory cage, vault, and compliance roles rather than booth windows.",
  "what_would_raise_it": {
    "levers": [
      {
        "dimension": "liability_shield",
        "change": "State gaming regulations or FinCEN Title 31 guidance requiring a licensed, individually-named casino cage employee to verify identity and personally attest to Currency Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports above the $10,000 threshold — i.e. an attestation that cannot be executed by a kiosk or cashless wallet system. Nevada Gaming Commission Reg 6A already imposes cage-level recordkeeping duties; extending personal attestation and naming individual accountability for structuring detection would convert a background-check registration into something closer to a signing duty.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 4
      },
      {
        "dimension": "liability_shield",
        "change": "Self-exclusion and responsible-gaming enforcement rules (as in the UK Gambling Commission's LCCP and several US state compacts) that require a human cage attendant to check a patron against an exclusion list before large redemptions, with license sanctions on the individual for a missed match.",
        "plausibility": "already happening",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "task_resistance",
        "change": "Task-mix shift: this occupation genuinely has two tiers. As kiosks and cashless wallets absorb all routine redemption, the residual role is exception-only — disputed payouts, malfunction adjudication, AML judgment, hand-pay verification. If headcount continues shrinking while exception volume stays constant, the surviving positions score higher on task resistance even with no new law. Watch for job postings retitled toward 'cage supervisor' or 'AML analyst' functions.",
        "plausibility": "already happening",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "judgment_accountability",
        "change": "Formal delegation of hand-pay and dispute-resolution authority to the cage, with documented individual sign-off, as gaming boards tighten dispute-record requirements after cashless-wallet errors. Nevada and New Jersey both require patron dispute reporting to the board; rules naming the deciding employee would raise this.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 3
      }
    ],
    "ceiling_note": "Even with every lever, this occupation is capped low. The headcount trend is the dominant fact: kiosks removed the transaction, not just the labor, and liability levers protect a shrinking number of cage supervisors rather than change persons. There is no realistic route to a trust premium — patrons do not pay extra for a human to hand them chips, and cashless adoption is driven by casino operators who capture the savings. Embodiment cannot rise; the floor is a predictable indoor environment."
  },
  "adjudication": null,
  "employment_history": {
    "points": [
      {
        "y": 2019,
        "emp": 21290,
        "wage": 25690
      },
      {
        "y": 2020,
        "emp": 14000,
        "wage": 27080
      },
      {
        "y": 2021,
        "emp": 17150,
        "wage": 28600
      },
      {
        "y": 2022,
        "emp": 18800,
        "wage": 30010
      },
      {
        "y": 2023,
        "emp": 20560,
        "wage": 33230
      },
      {
        "y": 2024,
        "emp": 21930,
        "wage": 34810
      },
      {
        "y": 2025,
        "emp": 21530,
        "wage": 36220
      }
    ],
    "from": 2019,
    "to": 2025,
    "change_pct": 1.1,
    "comparable_from": 2019,
    "spans_soc_revision": false
  },
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      "slug": "locker-room-coatroom-and-dressing-room-attendants",
      "title": "Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants",
      "verdict": "EXPOSED",
      "risk_resistance": 40,
      "median_wage": 36300,
      "overlap": 68,
      "skills_to_close": [
        "Speaking",
        "Active Listening",
        "Service Orientation"
      ]
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    {
      "slug": "transportation-security-screeners",
      "title": "Transportation Security Screeners",
      "verdict": "EXPOSED",
      "risk_resistance": 41,
      "median_wage": 66770,
      "overlap": 53,
      "skills_to_close": [
        "Active Learning",
        "Operations Analysis",
        "Science",
        "Operation and Control"
      ]
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  "license": "https://cookedindex.com/terms"
}