Best Jobs For Former Cashiers [2023]

It’s tough to be a cashier nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a cashier isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become cashiers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many cashiers no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former cashiers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former CASHIERS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former CASHIERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	5.7%
2	Sales Associate	5.18%
3	Server	1.72%
4	Assistant Manager	1.34%
5	Administrative Assistant	1.13%
6	Internship	1.12%
7	Certified Nursing Assistant	1.08%
8	Receptionist	1.02%
9	Teller	0.93%
10	Customer Service Trainer	0.87%
11	Sales Representative	0.83%
12	Manager	0.79%
13	Pharmacist Technician	0.78%
14	Security Officer	0.74%
15	Office Assistant	0.7%
16	Crew Member	0.69%
17	Volunteer	0.64%
18	Home Health Aid	0.61%
19	Teacher	0.6%
20	Customer Service Associate	0.58%
21	Associate	0.57%
22	Waitress	0.56%
23	Hostess	0.54%
24	Medical Assistant	0.52%
25	Supervisor	0.51%
26	Warehouse Associate	0.48%
27	Teacher Assistant	0.48%
28	Substitute Teacher	0.46%
29	Machine Operator	0.45%
30	Housekeeper	0.41%
31	Office Manager	0.37%
32	Clerk	0.37%
33	Cook	0.36%
34	Assistant	0.36%
35	Warehouse Worker	0.35%
36	Barista	0.34%
37	Server And Hostess	0.33%
38	Front Desk Receptionist	0.31%
39	Team Leader	0.3%
40	Sales Associate And Cashier	0.3%
41	Driver	0.3%
42	Security Guard	0.3%
43	Shift Supervisor	0.3%
44	Call Center Representative	0.3%
45	Manufacturing Team Member	0.29%
46	Store Manager	0.28%
47	Delivery Driver	0.27%
48	Shift Leader	0.27%
49	Specialist	0.26%
50	Picker	0.26%
51	Material Handler	0.26%
52	Shift Manager	0.25%
53	Package Handler	0.25%
54	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.25%
55	Technician	0.25%
56	Production Worker	0.24%
57	Bank Teller	0.24%
58	Direct Support Professional	0.24%
59	Preschool Teacher	0.24%
60	Secretary	0.24%
61	Packer	0.22%
62	Stocker	0.22%
63	Nanny	0.21%
64	Dietary Aide	0.2%
65	Data Entry Associate	0.2%
66	Agent	0.2%
67	Picker And Packer	0.2%
68	Merchandiser	0.19%
69	Cleaner	0.19%
70	Assembler	0.19%
71	Cook, Cashier, And Waitress	0.19%
72	Cashier/overnight Stock	0.19%
73	Customer Care Representative	0.19%
74	Ship Worker	0.18%
75	Student Assistant	0.18%
76	Key Holder	0.18%
77	Customer Service Manager	0.18%
78	Sales Person	0.17%
79	Billing Specialist	0.17%
80	Customer Service Agent	0.17%
81	Customer Service Specialist	0.17%
82	Overnight Stocker	0.17%
83	Stock Clerk	0.17%
84	Deli Clerk	0.17%
85	Sales Consultant	0.16%
86	Operator	0.16%
87	Food Service Worker	0.16%
88	Beauty Advisor	0.16%
89	Tutor	0.16%
90	Data Entry Clerk	0.16%
91	Front Desk Clerk	0.16%
92	Sandwich Artist	0.16%
93	Assistant Store Manager	0.15%
94	Sorter	0.15%
95	Research Assistant	0.15%
96	Representative	0.15%
97	Teacher Aide	0.15%
98	Bartender Server	0.14%
99	Personal Assistant	0.14%
100	Technical Support Technician	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former CASHIERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a cashier would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former cashiers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former CASHIERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed cashier under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a cashier, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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