Personal banking assistant vs teller

The differences between personal banking assistants and tellers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a personal banking assistant has an average salary of $36,843, which is higher than the $32,171 average annual salary of a teller.

The top three skills for a personal banking assistant include quality customer service, branch management and loan payments. The most important skills for a teller are cash handling, customer service, and financial transactions.

Personal banking assistant vs teller overview

	Personal Banking Assistant	Teller
Yearly salary	$36,843	$32,171
Hourly rate	$17.71	$15.47
Growth rate	-3%	-12%
Number of jobs	19,629	16,298
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Average age	41	39
Years of experience	12	-

Personal banking assistant vs teller salary

Personal banking assistants and tellers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Personal Banking Assistant	Teller
Average salary	$36,843	$32,171
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $49,000	Between $26,000 And $39,000
Highest paying City	-	Manchester, NJ
Highest paying state	-	New Jersey
Best paying company	-	Security Service Federal Credit Union
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between personal banking assistant and teller education

There are a few differences between a personal banking assistant and a teller in terms of educational background:

	Personal Banking Assistant	Teller
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Personal banking assistant vs teller demographics

Here are the differences between personal banking assistants' and tellers' demographics:

	Personal Banking Assistant	Teller
Average age	41	39
Gender ratio	Male, 26.7% Female, 73.3%	Male, 23.0% Female, 77.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.1% Unknown, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino, 21.5% Asian, 9.3% White, 55.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.8%	Black or African American, 9.5% Unknown, 3.4% Hispanic or Latino, 21.2% Asian, 7.2% White, 58.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.6%
LGBT Percentage	11%	7%

Differences between personal banking assistant and teller duties and responsibilities

Personal banking assistant example responsibilities.

Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to increase cross-sell opportunities and achieve sales goals.
Maintain and collect fees for safe deposit boxes and perform daily transaction/currency functions for area ATM's.
Reconcile ATM and audit non-monetary documents.
Comply with federal and international compliance regulations and procedures, along with completion of NMLS origination licensing.
Direct, develop and coordinate origination, structuring and administration of all credit, capital markets and syndicate credit/agency activities.

Teller example responsibilities.

Process commercial transaction including deposits, withdrawals and loan payments selling monetary instruments.
Compile with the bank secrecy act.
Process treasury, tax and loan payments.
Receive coin and currency from arm trucks.
Fill in for coin room teller when on vacation.
Monitor all monetary instruments purchase and complete all BSA logs.

Personal banking assistant vs teller skills

Common personal banking assistant skills

Quality Customer Service, 17%
Branch Management, 10%
Loan Payments, 6%
Bank Products, 6%
Loan Applications, 5%
Customer Relationships, 4%

Common teller skills

Cash Handling, 13%
Customer Service, 13%
Financial Transactions, 8%
Math, 6%
Bank Products, 6%
ATM, 3%