How to become a bank teller

Official title: Bank teller

Also called: Bank cashier, Bank counter clerk, Bank customer service clerk, Foreign exchange teller, Vault teller, Ÿ Bank cashier, Ÿ Bank customer service clerk

Bank teller receives and pays out money in a bank, keeps records of customers’ transactions and issues receipts. He/she receives deposits and pays out cash after making the necessary examination of signatures on cheques and of customers’ accounts and verification of information such as identification of persons receiving payments and the legality of documents. He/she makes or sees that appropriate entries are made in customer’s personal account books, sorts and counts, wraps and balances coins using various machines.

Main tasks

• Processing customer cash deposits and withdrawals, cheques, transfers, bills, credit card payments, money orders, certified cheques and other related banking transactions
• Crediting and debiting clients’ accounts
• Paying bills and making money transfers on clients’ behalf
• Changing money from one currency to another, as requested by clients
• Making records of all transactions and reconciling them with cash balance

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $47,580 a year. The middle half earn $38,328 to $54,720 a year.
• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Postal service counter clerk
• Money changer
• Pawnbroker
• Moneylender
• Bill collector

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Questions people ask

How much does a bank teller earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $47,580 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $38,328 to $54,720.

Will AI change the work of a bank teller?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026