Common DOT Codes -- Sedentary Unskilled -- Call-Out Operator

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.  

3.  Call-Out Operator (DOT 237-367-014)

Credit Checkers and Authorizers (SOC 43-4041) is a transitional code that has no ORS data.  The ETA is collapsing checkers and authorizers from two detailed O*NET codes to a single code that matches the 2018 SOC.  Credit checkers and authorizers represent about 25,000 jobs in four DOT codes.  We examine the O*NET 25.0 for the data:

Spend Time Sitting — How much does this job require sitting?	78	Continually or almost continually
	22	More than half the time

Spend Time Standing — How much does this job require standing?
	73	Less than half the time
	27	Never

We can exclude 27% of the jobs with a high level of confidence.  Another 22% probably require light exertion because of the standing and walking involved.  Now to check for SVP:

On-the-Job Training
Duration	Value
None or short demonstration	0%
Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month	25.48%

Related Work Experience
Duration	Value
None	8.28%
Up to and including 1 month	7.76%

The data suggests that 16% of the jobs do not require skills based on work experience requirements and 26% based on training.  Most of the jobs require skills and we can exclude 84% of the jobs.  This skill level probably has little correlation with the prolonged sitting of sedentary work or light work that requires less than constant (more than 67% of the workday) sitting.  

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Suggested Citation:

Lawrence Rohlfing, Common DOT Codes -- Sedentary Unskilled -- Call-Out Operator, California Social Security Attorney (December 13, 2021)  https://californiasocialsecurityattorney.blogspot.com