Summary Report
529.687-126 KOSHER INSPECTORIndustry: (dairy products) Reasoning: 3
Strength: L Mathematics: 1
SVP: 2 Language: 1
GOE: 06.03.02 Data: 6 - Significant
DLU: 77 People: 8 - Not Significant
Things: 7 - Not Significant
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SOC: 51-9061.00 Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
We start with the observation of no reaching, handling, or fingering; reasoning level 3; occasional tasting; and frequent near acuity and color vision. Kosher inspector exists in the dairy products industry. The next step requires examination of the occupation in the Standard Occupation Classification group of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers (SOC 51-9061.00). The equally free DOT TO 2010 O*NET-SOC Crosswalk Report (new free report on Occu Collect) lists 782 DOT codes within 51-9061. The subscription alternate titles reports puts the number of occupations found within 51-9061 at 1,145 occupations.
But we are talking about jobs, not occupations. For jobs, we start with the Occupational Outlook Handbook:
51-9061 - Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Typical Education Needed
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High school diploma or equivalent
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Work Experience in a Related Occupation
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None
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Typical On-The-Job Training Needed to Attain Competency
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Moderate-term on-the-job training
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2016 Employment
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520,700
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Source:
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Quality Control Inspectors, on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/quality-control-inspectors.htm
A half million jobs is a lot of jobs. So we turn to the Occupational Requirements Survey to break the group down, since we abhor the equal distribution method. We are concerned with light work, unskilled work, and the manipulative requirements of the work. Those are the reports that we cull from the list.Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Quality Control Inspectors, on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/quality-control-inspectors.htm
Series ID: ORUV1000005A00000065
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; svp is beyond short demonstration, up to & including 1 month
Requirement: Education, Training, And Experience
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: svp is beyond short demonstration, up to & including 1 month
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 21.2 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000662
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; strength is light work
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: strength is light work
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 21.5 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000332
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; gross manipulation is required, occasionally
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: gross manipulation is required, occasionally
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 16.3 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000333
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; gross manipulation is required, frequently
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: gross manipulation is required, frequently
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 29.2 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000334
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; gross manipulation is required, constantly
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: gross manipulation is required, constantly
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 46.4 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000771
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; gross manipulation is required
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: gross manipulation is required
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 100 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000345
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; gross manipulation is required, both hands
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: gross manipulation is required, both hands
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 100 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000349
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required, occasionally
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, occasionally
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 54.3 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000350
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required, frequently
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, frequently
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 18.4 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000351
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required, constantly
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, constantly
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 19.3 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000769
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 95.1 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000361
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required, one hand
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, one hand
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 36.3 |
Series ID: ORUP1000005A00000362
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers; fine manipulation is required, both hands
Requirement: Physical Demands
Occupation: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Estimate: fine manipulation is required, both hands
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Annual | 58.9 |
The Occu Collect Calculator brings the full-time (O*NET OnLine), SVP (1, 2, or both), and exertion (where reported, not all occupations studied have the conclusion) to discover:
51-9061.00 - Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
| Job Number Calculations | ||
# of Jobs
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% Full-Time
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# Full-Time
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520,700
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93%
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484,251
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# Full-Time
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% SVP 2
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# SVP 2
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484,251
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21%
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101,693
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# SVP 2
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% Light
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# Light
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101,693
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22%
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22,372
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Using Kosher Inspector as a simple example of unskilled light work as an inspector, tester, the number of jobs is 22,372 in every single light unskilled DOT or alternate title. The gross manipulation data requires the inference that all jobs require use of the hands, 91.9% occasionally or more. That leaves 8.1% as the unreported seldom range. Inspectors, testers engage in no fine manipulation in 4.9% of jobs and one-handed fine manipulation in 36.3% of jobs. Another 3.1% engage in what is most likely seldom fine manipulation.
How many inspectors, testers engage in no manipulation? The answer to that question is zero based on the gross manipulation statistics. Fewer than 1,800 engage in seldom gross manipulation. Fewer than 1,200 engage in no fine manipulation bilaterally but over 8,100 do not engage in fine manipulation with one hand.
As described by the DOT/SCO, it is safe to conclude that no Kosher Inspector jobs exist as described. Accounting for seldom use of the hands bilaterally, the number of jobs could reach 1,800 but is likely far less. The assumption of 1,800 jobs assumes that the same jobs that do not require more than seldom gross also require seldom or no fine manipulation. That is a statistical inference that is without foundation and probably not true.
If you (or the ALJ) are still not satisfied, pull out the employment projections. The EP informs us that the dairy product manufacturing industry group (NAICS 311500) employed approximately 3,300 inspectors, testers in the national economy as of 2016. The always cumbersome Occupational Employment Statistics Query System puts the number of inspectors, testers in the dairy industry at 4,020. Those two numbers exist at all exertion and skill levels, absent additional statistical data.
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