Grocery Cashier

BLS OEWS, May 2025, national. The matching BLS detailed occupation is Cashiers (41-2011).

BLS occupation title

Cashiers

SOC code

41-2011

National employment

3,089,410

Median hourly wage

$15.81

Mean hourly wage

$15.95

Median annual wage

$32,880

Mean annual wage

$33,180

10th percentile hourly wage

$11.79

90th percentile hourly wage

$19.43

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 national estimates, https://www.bls.gov/oes/. Record: 41-2011.

What these figures are

National estimates for one BLS occupation across all employers, not a rate for any one job and not a statement about any shift pattern. The median is the wage at which half the workers in the occupation are above and half below. Where BLS does not publish a value, the page says so and does not estimate it.

Shift hours

Pay for a particular shift is arithmetic on the hours actually worked and the rate actually paid. The calculators do only that arithmetic: shift hours, hour totals split at 40, long shifts, shifts that end next day.