Yearly Salary

• Bank tellers make an average of $24,780 a year as of May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries range from $18,270 for those tellers in the bottom 10 percent to $32,520 for those in the top 10 percent.
  
  

Employers

• Most bank tellers work in the industry of depository credit intermediation for the annual average salary of $24,750 according to the Bureau, while others work in nondepository credit intermediation for the average of $25,050 a year. In activities related to credit intermediation, the average income of a bank teller is $23,600, while those in securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage earn an average of $26,600. Bank tellers working in the management of companies and enterprises earn an average income of $26,030 a year.
  
  

Higher Wages

• Although job opportunities are more scarce for bank tellers in other industries, they may find higher wages with other employers. Bank tellers in amusement parks and arcades earn an average salary of $27,640 a year according to the Bureau, and those employed by the local government earn $28,630. The offices of physicians also hire bank tellers for the average salary of $29,670 a year. In colleges, universities and professional schools, bank tellers earn $29,940 a year, and junior colleges have the highest salary average for tellers at $37,960 annually.
  
  

Location

• Alaska is named by the Bureau as the state with the highest salary average for bank tellers at $29,290 a year. Massachusetts and Connecticut follow with averages of $28,370 and $27,690, respectively. Bank tellers in the metropolitan area of Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan earn the highest salary average in the country at $31,830 annually, closely followed by Danbury, Connecticut at $31,590 and Framingham, Massachusetts at $30,110.