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Career and Education Opportunities for Bank Tellers in Ramapo, New York

Ramapo, New York provides a wide variety of opportunities, both career and educational, for bank tellers. There are currently 32,570 working bank tellers in New York; this should grow 2% to about 33,250 working bank tellers in the state by 2016. This is not quite as good as the nation as a whole, where employment opportunities for bank tellers are expected to grow by about 6.2%. Bank tellers generally receive and pay out money.

Income for bank tellers is about $11 per hour or $24,640 yearly on average in New York. Nationally, their income is about $11 hourly or $23,610 annually. Compared with people working in the overall category of Billing and Bookkeeping, people working as bank tellers in New York earn less. They earn less than people working in the overall category of Billing and Bookkeeping nationally.

The Ramapo area is home to 136 schools of higher education, including two within twenty-five miles of Ramapo where you can get a degree as a bank teller. The most common level of education for bank tellers is a high school diploma or GED. You can expect to spend only a short time training to become a bank teller if you already have a high school diploma.


Bank Teller video from the State of New Jersey Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development

In general, bank tellers receive and pay out money. They also keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.

Bank tellers cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds. They also receive checks and cash for deposit and check precision of deposit slips. Equally important, bank tellers have to count currency and checks received, by hand or using currency-counting machines, to ready them for deposit or shipment to branch banks or the Federal Reserve Bank. They are often called upon to balance currency and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts, and calculate daily transactions using computers or adding machines. They are expected to examine checks for endorsements and to confirm other data such as dates, bank names, identification of the persons receiving payments and the legality of the documents. Finally, bank tellers identify transaction mistakes when debits and credits do not balance.

Every day, bank tellers are expected to be able to listen to and understand others in meetings. They need to understand what others are saying to them even in a noisy environment.

It is important for bank tellers to enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts. They are often called upon to arrange monies received in cash boxes and coin dispensers in line with denomination. They also carry out special services for customers. They are sometimes expected to sort and file deposit slips and checks. Somewhat less frequently, bank tellers are also expected to perform clerical tasks such as typing and microfilm photography.

They also have to be able to issue checks to bond owners in settlement of transactions and receive and count daily inventories of cash and travelers' checks. And finally, they sometimes have to arrange monies received in cash boxes and coin dispensers in line with denomination.

Like many other jobs, bank tellers must be thorough and dependable and have exceptional integrity.

Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Ramapo include:



Mercy College - Dobbs Ferry, NY

Mercy College, 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522. Mercy College is a medium sized college located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. It is a private not-for-profit school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 8,792 students and an admission rate of 35%. Mercy College has an associate's degree and a master's degree program in Banking and Financial Support Services which graduated three and zero students respectively in 2008.

Bergen Community College - Paramus, NJ

Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652-1595. Bergen Community College is a large college located in Paramus, New Jersey. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 15,283 students. Bergen Community College has an associate's degree program in Banking and Financial Support Services which graduated seven students in 2008.


Certified Bank Teller: Applicable to financial services professionals who have completed the AIB Bank Teller Certificate and who function as bank tellers.

For more information, see the Institute of Certified Bankers website.


For more information, see the National Retail Federation Foundation website.


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Ramapo, New York photo by Mwanner




