Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Update on Counter and Rental Clerks -- Full-Time Light Unskilled Work

We discussed various forms of counter and rental clerks.  We discussed Furniture Rental Consultants 295-357-018 and Furniture Rental Consultants part II.  We discussed Counter Clerks -- DOT 249.366-010.  These are both light unskilled occupations that are go to for vocational experts.  In a recent examination for the Occu Collect Sedentary Compendium (coming soon), the epiphany arrived.  Full-time, light, unskilled work in counter and rental clerks do exists in small numbers that are subject to erosion. 

41-2021 Counter and rental clerks

Typical Education Needed
No formal educational credential
Work Experience in a Related Occupation
None
Typical On-The-Job Training Needed to Attain Competency
Short-term on-the-job training
2016 Employment
458,200

This occupational group represents DOT codes across the exertion and skill spectrum with varied reaching, handling, and fingering.

DOT Code
DOT Title
S
SVP
R
H
F
216.482-030
LAUNDRY PRICING CLERK
S
3
F
F
F
249.362-010
COUNTER CLERK
L
5
F
F
F
249.366-010
COUNTER CLERK
L
2
O
O
O
290.477-010
COUPON-REDEMPTION CLERK
L
2
F
F
F
290.477-018
SALES CLERK, FOOD
L
3
F
F
F
295.357-010
APPAREL-RENTAL CLERK
L
3
F
F
O
295.357-014
TOOL-AND-EQUIPMENT-RENTAL CLERK
M
4
F
F
F
295.357-018
FURNITURE-RENTAL CONSULTANT
L
2
O
O
O
295.367-010
AIRPLANE-CHARTER CLERK
L
3
F
F
O
295.367-014
BABY-STROLLER AND WHEELCHAIR RENTAL CLERK
L
2
F
F
N
295.367-026
STORAGE-FACILITY RENTAL CLERK
L
2
F
F
N
295.467-010
BICYCLE-RENTAL CLERK
L
2
F
F
F
295.467-014
BOAT-RENTAL CLERK
L
2
O
O
O
295.467-018
HOSPITAL-TELEVISION-RENTAL CLERK
L
2
F
F
F
295.467-022
TRAILER-RENTAL CLERK
L
4
F
F
O
295.467-026
AUTOMOBILE RENTAL CLERK
L
4
F
F
F
299.367-018
WATCH-AND-CLOCK-REPAIR CLERK
L
5
F
F
O
369.367-010
FUR-STORAGE CLERK
L
6
F
F
F
369.367-014
RUG MEASURER
L
4
F
F
O
369.467-010
MANAGER, BRANCH STORE
L
3
F
F
F
369.477-010
CURB ATTENDANT
M
2
F
F
F
369.477-014
SERVICE-ESTABLISHMENT ATTENDANT
L
3
F
F
O
369.587-010
VAULT CUSTODIAN
M
3
C
C
F
369.677-010
SELF-SERVICE-LAUNDRY-AND-DRY-CLEANING ATTENDANT
M
2
F
F
O

The question is how this occupational group breaks down in skill and exertion. Combining the O*NET full-time/part-time data and the skill and exertion level

41-2021.00 - Counter and Rental Clerks

Job Number Calculations
# of Jobs
% Full-Time
# Full-Time
458,200
41%
187,862
# Full-Time
% Unskilled
# Unskilled
187,862
55%
103,324
# Unskilled
% Light
# Light
103,324
54%
55,795

This includes light work that requires significant manipulation, prolonged standing/walking and other factors that make work light as opposed to sedentary or medium.  About 12% of the jobs in the group represent full-time, light, unskilled work.  But 55,795 jobs is the starting point for the job numbers analysis not based on occupation-industry matrix but based on the presence of counter and rental clerks across the economy.

41-2021.00 Counter and Rental Clerks

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000349
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of counter and rental clerks; fine manipulation is required, occasionally
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, occasionally
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual69.5

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000769
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of counter and rental clerks; fine manipulation is required
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: fine manipulation is required
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual86

These data points tell us that 16.5% of the jobs require fine manipulation that is not occasional.  Another ORS report describes counter and rental clerks engage in frequent keyboarding in 40.5% of jobs.

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000333
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of counter and rental clerks; gross manipulation is required, frequently
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: gross manipulation is required, frequently
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual49.5

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000771
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of counter and rental clerks; gross manipulation is required
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: gross manipulation is required
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual100

These data points tell us that 49.5% of the jobs require frequent gross manipulation.  Whether the 16.5% of presumably frequent fine manipulation and 49.5% of defined frequent gross manipulation cascade, overlap, or describe mostly the same jobs is a question for a vocational expert.

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000128
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: counter and rental clerks; hours of standing/walking (50th percentile - median)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: hours of standing/walking (50th percentile - median)
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual4

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000129
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: counter and rental clerks; hours of standing/walking (75th percentile)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: hours of standing/walking (75th percentile)
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual7.2

Series ID: ORUP1000066900000130
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: counter and rental clerks; hours of standing/walking (90th percentile)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: hours of standing/walking (90th percentile)
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual8

These data points tell us that something more than 25% of the jobs require more than six hours of standing/walking in an eight-hour day.  Another 10% of jobs require sitting more than six hours per day.

Series ID: ORUP1000066900001006
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: counter and rental clerks; % of day standing/walking is required (50th percentile - median)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: % of day standing/walking is required (50th percentile - median)
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual75

Series ID: ORUP1000066900001007
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: counter and rental clerks; % of day standing/walking is required (75th percentile)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Counter and Rental Clerks
Estimate: % of day standing/walking is required (75th percentile)
YearPeriodEstimate
2018Annual95

The jobs that require standing/walking more than 75% of the day falls somewhere between the 50th and 75th percentiles. Another easy erosion is the absence of a high school education or equivalent education.  Despite the OOH description of the occupational group as typically having no educational requirement, most of the jobs require a high school education or more.

When a vocational expert identifies an occupation, cross-examination must ascertain the SOC group, the number of jobs within that group, and then whittle away based on the characteristics of that group's job requirements.  If the claimant is under 55 and a minimally positive vocational profile, the full range of light work will push the finding of not disabled.  The amount of sitting or standing/walking and the frequency of manipulation individually or in combination will significantly erode the number of jobs.  The individual nature of a particular claimant's medical-vocational profile will direct the inquiry and the ability to demonstrate a reliable number of jobs, if any.
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