List of DOT Codes in SOC 41-0211, Cashiers

We examined cashiers today.  This is a list of the DOT codes within SOC 41-2011:

DOTCode	DOTTitle	STRENGTH	SVP	GEDR
211.367-010	PAYMASTER OF PURSES	S	6	4
211.462-010	CASHIER II	L	2	3
211.462-014	CASHIER-CHECKER	L	3	3
211.462-018	CASHIER-WRAPPER	L	3	3
211.462-026	CHECK CASHIER	S	3	3
211.462-030	DRIVERS'-CASH CLERK	L	3	3
211.462-034	TELLER	L	3	3
211.462-038	TOLL COLLECTOR	L	2	3
211.467-010	CASHIER, COURTESY BOOTH	L	4	3
211.467-014	MONEY COUNTER	L	3	3
211.467-018	PARIMUTUEL-TICKET CASHIER	L	2	3
211.467-022	PARIMUTUEL-TICKET SELLER	L	2	3
211.467-026	SHEET WRITER	L	2	3
211.467-030	TICKET SELLER	L	2	3
211.482-010	CASHIER, TUBE ROOM	S	3	3
211.482-014	FOOD CHECKER	S	3	3
249.467-010	INFORMATION CLERK-CASHIER	L	5	3
294.567-010	AUCTION CLERK	S	3	2

Cashiers -- Unskilled, Full-Time, by Exertion

Cashiers are a "go to" for vocational experts.  We all know that cashiers exist in the economy; we actually see them everyday in our daily lives.  We examine the existence of this occupation as a target for other work in the disability context.

CASHIER II

211.462-010

DOT: 211.462-010 CASHIER II (clerical) alternate titles: cash clerk; cashier, general; cashier, office; ticket clerk Receives cash from customers or employees in payment for goods or services and records amounts received: Recomputes or computes bill, itemized lists, and tickets showing amount due, using adding machine or cash register. Makes change, cashes checks, and issues receipts or tickets to customers. Records amounts received and prepares reports of transactions. Reads and records totals shown on cash register tape and verifies against cash on hand. May be required to know value and features of items for which money is received. ay give cash refunds or issue credit memorandums to customers for returned merchandise. May operate ticket-dispensing machine. ay operate cash register with peripheral electronic data processing equipment by passing individual price coded items across electronic scanner to record price, compile printed list, and display cost of customer purchase, tax, and rebates on monitor screen. May sell candy, cigarettes, gum, and gift certificates, and issue trading stamps. May be designated according to nature of establishment as Cafeteria Cashier (hotel & rest.); Cashier, Parking Lot (automotive ser.); Dining-Room Cashier (hotel & rest.); Service-Bar Cashier (hotel & rest.); Store Cashier (clerical); or according to type of account as Cashier, Credit (clerical); Cashier, Payments Received (clerical). May press numeric keys of computer corresponding to gasoline pump to reset meter on pump and to record amount of sale and be designated Cashier, Self-Service Gasoline (automotive ser.). May receive money, make change, and cash checks for sales personnel on same floor and be designated Floor Cashier (clerical). May make change for patrons at places of amusement other than gambling establishments and be designated Change-Booth Cashier (amuse. & rec.).

GOE: 07.03.01 STRENGTH: L GED: R3 M2 L2 SVP: 2 DLU: 81DOT-O*NET 
Crosswalk: https://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/DOT?s=211.462-010&g=GO

The full list of DOT codes within Cashiers, SOC 41-2011 is here. 

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The Occupational Outlook Handbook confirms commonsense, that there are a lot of cashiers.

 

41-2011 - Cashiers

Typical Entry-Level Education	No formal educational credential
Work experience in a related occupation	None
On the job training	Short-term on-the-job training
Number of jobs, 2016	3,555,500

But the number of jobs doesn ot mean that all of them are substantial gainful activity. The O*NET OnLine describes the results of statistical research into the number of jobs that are full-time or more.

 

41-2011.00 - Cashiers

Duration of Typical Work Week — Number of hours typically worked in one week.	49	Less Than 40 Hours
	28	40 Hours
	24	More Than 40 Hours

We are just getting started and have cut the occupational base for SGA purposes almost in half. The Occupational Requirements Survey is the next stop to assess skill level.

Series ID: ORUV1000066700000064
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; svp is short demonstration only
Requirement: Education, Training, And Experience
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: svp is short demonstration only
Year     Period     Estimate
2017     Annual   6.3
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUV1000066700000064

Series ID: ORUV1000066700000065
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; svp is beyond short demonstration, up to & including 1 month
Requirement: Education, Training, And Experience
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: svp is beyond short demonstration, up to & including 1 month
Year     Period      Estimate
2017     Annual    82.8

https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUV1000066700000065

Most of the jobs are unskilled, 89.1% of the jobs are unskilled.  We continue the analysis of exertion.  

Series ID: ORUP1000066700000662
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; strength is light work
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: strength is light work
Year     Period      Estimate
2017     Annual    20.8

https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700000662

Series ID: ORUP1000066700000663
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; strength is medium work
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: strength is medium work
Year     Period      Estimate
2017    Annual     70
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700000663

Series ID: ORUP1000066700000664
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; strength is heavy work
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: strength is heavy work
Year     Period      Estimate
2017    Annual     8.4
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700000664

The vast majority of cashiers engage in medium or heavy exertion.  This includes grocery checkers lifting cases of beverages and dog food.  As to those jobs, the DOT is inaccurate.  

Series ID: ORUP1000066700000137
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: cashiers; hours of sitting (90th percentile)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: hours of sitting (90th percentile)
Year     Period      Estimate
2017     Annual    0.8
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700000137

Cashiers do not sit two hours per day, not even at the 90th percentile.  

Series ID: ORUP1000066700000139
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of cashiers; sitting vs. standing/walking at will is allowed
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: sitting vs. standing/walking at will is allowed
Year     Period      Estimate
2017     Annual    5.6
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700000139

A small percentage of cashiers have the sit-stand option, 5.6%.  Cashiers stand/walk four hours per day at the 10th percentile and 4.27 hours per day at the 25th percentile.  We recall that almost half of the jobs are part-time and therefore look to the percentage of the day of standing/walking:

Series ID: ORUP1000066700001004
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: cashiers; % of day standing/walking is required (10th percentile)
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: cashiers
Estimate: % of day standing/walking is required (10th percentile)
Year     Period      Estimate
2017     Annual    87.5
https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/ORUP1000066700001004

All other percentiles require more standing/walking as measured as a percentage of the day.  We are ready to run the numbers to illustrate the number of full-time, unskilled jobs requiring light, medium, and heavy exertion with a side illustration of the sit-stand option and a limitation to six hours of standing/walking in a day:

Cashiers
No. of Jobs	% Full-Time	# Full-Time
3,555,500	52%	1,848,860
# Full-Time	% Unskilled	# Unskilled
1,848,860	89.10%	1,647,334
# Unskilled	% Light	# Light
1,647,334	20.80%	342,646
# Light	% SSO	# SSO
342,646	5.60%	19,188
# SSO	% ≤ 6 hours S/W	# ≤ 6 hours S/W
19,188	0.00%	0
# Unskilled	% Medium	# Medium
1,647,334	70.00%	1,153,134
# Medium	% SSO	# SSO
1,153,134	5.60%	64,576
# SSO	% ≤ 6 hours S/W	# ≤ 6 hours S/W
64,576	0.00%	0
# Unskilled	% Heavy	# Heavy
1,647,334	8.40%	138,376
# Heavy	% SSO	# SSO
138,376	5.60%	7,749
# SSO	% ≤ 6 hours S/W	# ≤ 6 hours S/W
7,749	0.00%	0

The next time a vocational expert offers cashier II as an example of light work, ask for the data source for full-time, skill level, and exertion.  Neither the Occupational Employment Quarterly nor Job Browser Pro uses BLS data to determine the percentages of jobs that are unskilled or by exertion particularly the breakdown of the amount of sitting/standing/walking in an eight-hour day.  OccuCollect's Sitting, Standing, Walking Report puts the O*NET and ORS data in one place to erase this occupation from consideration.  OccuCollect's Lifting & Carrying Report establishes the strength requirements of the occupational group.  Both reports carry the SVP data and the part-time vs. full-time breakdown from the O*NET.  

Cashiers and Changes in O*NET 23.0

Two days ago, we pointed to the release of version 23.0 of the O*NET.  Of the 100 occupations updated in 23.0, just 17 of them have unskilled occupations.  Cashiers is a favorite of vocational experts, so we focus on that today.

In version 22.3, the O*NET listed cashiers as 80% part-time.  Strike that factoid.  Version 23.0 now lists cashiers duration of the work week:

38

Duration of Typical Work Week — Number of hours typically worked in one week.

24    More than 40 hours 28    40 hours 49    Less than 40 hours

Of the 3.4 million cashier jobs, most of them are now listed by the Department of Labor as full-time work.  That is an arrow out of the representative quiver.  

Cashiers are still predominantly light or medium.  Cashiers sit in the sedentary range in just 4% of jobs. 

17

Spend Time Sitting — How much does this job require sitting?

4    Continually or almost continually 0    More than half the time 19    About half the time 11    Less than half the time 65    Never

The vast majority of cashiers do not sit in the upper range of occasional; they stand continually or almost continually in two-thirds of jobs.  

79

Spend Time Standing — How much does this job require standing?

66    Continually or almost continually 2    More than half the time 13    About half the time 19    Less than half the time 0    Never

Cashiers walk to a significant degree in 81% of jobs.  

45

Spend Time Walking and Running — How much does this job require walking and running?

20    Continually or almost continually 19    More than half the time 1    About half the time 41    Less than half the time 19    Never

And cashiers must deal with people, deal with upset people, and work with a team.  

45

Spend Time Walking and Running — How much does this job require walking and running?

20    Continually or almost continually 19    More than half the time 1    About half the time 41    Less than half the time 19    Never

68

Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements?

35    Every day 35    Once a week or more but not every day 7    Once a month or more but not every week 14    Once a year or more but not every month 9    Never

17

Deal With Physically Aggressive People — How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals?

0    Every day 9    Once a week or more but not every day 8    Once a month or more but not every week 24    Once a year or more but not every month 59    Never

84

Work With Work Group or Team — How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?

63    Extremely important 19    Very important 8    Important 10    Fairly important 0    Not important at all

The last piece of data that comes up frequently in hearings is the importance of being exact or accurate.  This comes up in the off-task X% of the day.  

85

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?

62    Extremely important 17    Very important 21    Important 1    Fairly important 0    Not important at all

Look for Occu Collect to bring the 100 updates over to the three O*NET reports within the next week.