Sedentary work that does not exceed six hours of sitting in an eight-hour day represents a small window. The DOT and the regulations define sedentary work as involving standing or walking not more than occasionally, 2.3 hours. Sedentary work as depicted by a residual functional capacity question with a lower limit of 5.7 hours an upper limit of 6.0 hours constitutes a slender reed.
Understanding sedentary work rests on the difference between and and or. Light work exists (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; OR (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; AND/OR (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.
Sedentary work exists when the work (1) when it does not require walking or standing to a significant degree; AND (2) when it requires sitting most of the time and does not involve pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; AND (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace but does not entail the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. Transgressing the standing/walking, lifting/carrying, pushing/pulling with the arms or legs, or production rate pace strips away any hope for that sedentary label.
The cadre of vocational experts rely on 16 different DOT codes in the sedentary range. Ignoring obsolescence and industry, the question is whether the occupations are unskilled, sedentary, and do not exceed 6.0 hours of sitting in a full-time workday. We will tackle this problem on occupation at a time.
1. Addresser (DOT 209.587-010)
Word processors and typists (SOC 43-9022) is a rapidly vanishing occupational group. Current data describe word processors and typists at circa 43,000 jobs. The
OES estimated over 96,000 jobs a decade ago. The Occupational Requirements Survey does not report data for word processors and typists. That leaves the O*NET OnLine:
Spend Time Sitting — How much does this job require sitting? | 90 | Continually or almost continually |
10 | More than half the time |
Spend Time Standing — How much does this job require standing? | |
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2 | About half the time |
79 | Less than half the time |
19 | Never |
Constant is more than frequent. To describe continually, almost continually, or more than half the time as falling inside or outside of the 5.7-6.0 range is not possible on the data presented.
Never standing does preclude a 6.0 hour ceiling. Standing about half the time precludes the 5.7 hour floor. We can exclude 21% of the jobs.
Skill level is easier. Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) turns on three factors: education, training, and experience. A short demonstration is 1 point, not more than 30 days is 2 points. Less than or equal to a high school education is 0 points. No related work experience is 0 points. Up to one month of related work experience is 1 point. More than 30 days of related work experience is 2 points.
| On-the-Job Training |
| Duration | Value |
| None or short demonstration | 3.99% |
| Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | 47.55% |
| Related Work Experience |
| Duration | Value |
| None | 4.03% |
| Up to and including 1 month | 0% |
| Required Level of Education |
| Education Level | Value |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 1.96% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent | 49.61% |
Half the jobs do not require skills based on on-the-job training and education. But over 95% of jobs require related work experience in excess of 30 days -- skills. The reported standing removes 21% of word processing jobs; SVP eliminates 95% of the jobs. A significant number of jobs as an addresser does not exist even if it is not obsolete, which it is.
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Suggested Citation:
Lawrence Rohlfing, Common DOT Codes -- Sedentary, Unskilled -- Addresser, California Social Security Attorney (December 9, 2021) https://californiasocialsecurityattorney.blogspot.com
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