Back in the '70s, when I worked a few summers at the Canadian National Exhibition, once I was tapped to accompany a cashier from a park entrance gate to the bank on the premises, carrying part of a day’s receipts. I don’t know the exact amount, but it was near $50,000.
One morning I came into work and the first thing the chief jailer told me was that someone had paid their bail of $20,000 in cash. It was in a plastic grocery sack and I took it to the bank still in the sack (after I had counted it, of course.) I would have asked for a deputy to escort me but the bank was less than a mile away and I was driving a Sheriff’s department car. I was just a trifle nervous, though.
During my sophomore year in college the owner of the restaurant I worked in was looking to expand. He made an offer to a gentleman who owned a building that was part convenience store/grocery part seafood market part illegal betting parlor (the owner/operator ran numbers). The agreement was “You can buy my building, but only for cash. I don’t take checks for anything.” I was the lucky guy who got to carry the downpayment. It was about $30,000 in cash, carried in a gym bag ($10s, $20s, and 50s - he wouldn’t take anything bigger than that). I walked in, handed Barefoot (what a great name for a shady character, eh?) the gym bag and he said, “You won’t be wanting a receipt, right?”
Of my own personal cash, about $2000, buying a computer.
For work, probably 15 or 16000, depositing into the bank.
Edit - I’ve actually had the deposits for two stores at once… maybe 22 to 25000 total.
Joe
$36,000.00
A summer job while I was in college was with a small finance company and all the tellers had cashed out their drawers. It was 7pm and I was about to go home when a client came in to pay off his brand new Corvette for cash. The manager demanded that I take the cash and reciept it out of my personal reciept book. As I was personally responsible for that money, I sealed it inside an envelope and it didn’t leave my side until it was logged into the cash drawer the next day (shower not withstanding).
Of my own, about $1200.
Of my employer’s, anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000. I’m another who did the “walk to the bank” many times when I worked retail.
Probably about $3000 - in wrapped quarters, nickels, and dimes - to the bank. (My father had vending machines).
Personally, the most I have ever carried was about $1800 in wrapped coins I had saved up over a few years. I went to several different banks to exchange it for paper money.
For work, I used to be a manager for fast food and I would often drop off the nightly deposit, which at times was as high as $3,000. I had often heard stories about robbers lurking in the shrubbery or around the corner and mugging people, so I was always on the lookout for these types of thugs. Fortunately I never had any such experiences.