Last year, we addressed the furniture rental consultant. More like last
week. Mr. Olinsky suggested that furniture rental stores are everywhere
in the red states. Let's look at the occupation-industry
matrix from BLS, sorted by industry.
The reports available for the retail
trade sector:
Retail trade, except motor vehicle and parts dealers, food and beverage stores, and general merchandise stores
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When we look at furniture and home furnishing stores, BLS reports total employment of 454,600 jobs. Not a small industry by any stretch. Here is how BLS breaks down the employment of retail sales workers:
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| The retail salespersons (41-2031) make up the largest group of employees under the umbrella of retail sales workers (41-2000). Retail salesperson includes: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 270.357-030 Salesperson, Furniture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| That is a semi-skilled occupation and largely irrelevant for disability purposes absent transferable skills. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The industry matrix gives the data by industry to permit looking at the allegation of widespread employment in the furniture rental industry. Salespersons, whether selling or renting, is a semi-skilled position and represents almost half of total industry employment -- 454,600 jobs. BLS again confirms that the unskilled occupation nestled inside of 41-2021 does not exist in significant numbers. |
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ReplyDeleteI have a hearing where this position may come up. I was wondering if you've ever been able to knock out this job during VE testimony using the above argument. The older excel links you posted are dead now, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I think this is what's current:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics3_442000.htm
Is the strategy first to ask the VE what SOC code is, and NAICS category. Then second, (assuming the VE classifies as we think they will) point out that according to BLS stats for Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores, there appear to be (by my reading) only 470 positions in this category under the SOC code 41-2021? Or am I missing a step somewhere? Thanks!
BLS abandoned the XLSX format for reporting the occupation-industry matrix. You will find it in HTML format
ReplyDeletehttps://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=41-2021&ioType=o
The current version of Job Browser Pro includes an industry designation that is not appropriate. Reducing the industries to those that actually rent furniture reduces the number of furniture-rental consultants to a not significant level. Look for a new blog soon.
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