A professional who sells tickets for travel on ferryboats, street railroads, buses, and for admission to places of entertainment, such as skating rinks, baseball parks, stadiums, and amusement parks. Responsibilities include:

• Depresses key on ticket-dispensing machine that automatically ejects number of tickets requested by patron or tears tickets from roll and hands ticket to patron.
• Accepts payment and makes change.
• Answers questions concerning fares, routes, schedules, and reservations, and gives information concerning coming attractions.
• Keeps daily balance sheet of cash received and tickets sold.
• May fill reservations for seats by telephone or mail.
• May sell tickets from box office and be designated Cashier, Box Office.
• May collect fares from repeat riders at amusement park and be designated Second-Ride-Fare Collector.
• May collect fares from railroad passengers at station and sell commuter tickets and be designated Station Agent II.