Sticker ... an artificial flower worker with artificial numbers

In the world of annoying vocational expert testimony, this is one of the worst.  Sticker is a rare job if it exists as a stand-alone job at all. 

734.687-090 STICKER (button & notion) alternate titles: leaf sticker

    Glues paper-covered wire to artificial flowers to stiffen and strengthen them. May emboss simulated veins on leaves.
GOE: 06.04.23 STRENGTH: S GED: R1 M1 L1 SVP: 1 DLU: 77

The only pertinent characteristics about the occupation are that it requires constant reaching, handling, and fingering as well as constant near acuity.  Among the aptitudes required, stickers need average motor coordination and average finger dexterity.  Claimants capable of sedentary work with good vision and intact hand usage could perform this kind of work.  But it doesn't exist in significant numbers.

Stickers belong to that huge group of occupations, production workers, all other.  The O*NET lists 1,590 DOT codes.  The OOH uses 1,526 DOT codes.  The OOH released in October 2017 has the 2016 employment data:

      ·         2016 employment: 263,500·         May 2016 median annual wage: $28,770·         Projected employment change, 2016–26:
o    Number of new jobs: 12,800o    Growth rate: 5 percent (As fast as average)·         Education and training:
o    Typical entry-level education: High school diploma or equivalento    Work experience in a related occupation: Noneo    Typical on-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Jobs in this group typically require a high school education or equivalent and are semi-skilled.  Moderate-term means more and a month. 

The Census Bureau, in coordination with its counterparts in Canada and Mexico as part of NAFTA, defines

339993 Fastener, Button, Needle, and Pin Manufacturing  This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fasteners, buttons, needles, pins, and buckles (except made of precious metals or precious and semiprecious stones and gems).

Stickers don't deal with fasteners and buttons despite its DOT classification in the buttons and notions industry.  We need notions, whatever that means. 

339999 All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in miscellaneous manufacturing (except medical equipment and supplies, jewelry and flatware, sporting and athletic goods, dolls, toys, games, office supplies (except paper), musical instruments, fasteners, buttons, needles, pins, brooms, brushes, mops, and burial caskets).

Census gives 56 examples in this all other category:

2017 NAICS		Corresponding Index Entries
339999		Artificial flower arrangements assembled from purchased components
339999		Flowers, artificial (except glass, plastics), manufacturing

Now we can winnow this down using 339999, all other miscellaneous manufacturing.  Census publishes County Business Patterns and its says:

2012 NAICS code	Meaning of 2012 NAICS code	Number of establishments	Paid employees for pay period including March 12 (number)
339	Miscellaneous manufacturing	26,614	538,658
3399	Other miscellaneous	15,847	260,737
	manufacturing
339993	Fastener, button,	135	4,142
	needle, and pin
	manufacturing
339999	All other miscellaneous	3,815	48,966
	manufacturing

The industry subsector employed 538,658 people as of March 12, 2015.  The all other miscellaneous manufacturing industry employed 48,966.  That is all the jobs, not just stickers. 

The employment projections from the occupation-industry matrix unlocks the next door:

Employment by industry, occupation, and percent distribution, 2016
and projected 2026
51-9199 Production workers, all other
(Employment in thousands)
Industries with fewer than 50 jobs, confidential data, or poor quality data are not displayed
	Industry		2016
Sort Order	Code	Title	Employment	Percent of industry	Percent of occupation
1	TE1000	Total employment	263.5	0.2	100
30	31-330	Manufacturing	113.5	0.9	43.1
123	339000	Miscellaneous manufacturing	7.3	1.2	2.8
125	339900	Other miscellaneous manufacturing	5.4	1.9	2
159	444200	Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores	0.1	0.1	0
166	453900	Other miscellaneous store retailers	0.4	0.1	0.1

Production workers all other make 7,300 jobs in all miscellaneous manufacturing or 1.2% of industry employment.  Those workers make up 5,400 jobs or 1.9% of jobs in other miscellaneous manufacturing.  The industry is a fifth the size of the industry group.  That makes a safe assumption of 1,000 production workers all other in the nation. 

Now consider the other 20 production worker all other occupations that the DOT classifies as in the buttons and notions industry; 21 production workers all other occupations that the DOT classifies in other industries where the manufactured product corresponds with the DOT description. 

I included lawn and garden equipment and other miscellaneous store retailers as a nod to Job Browser Pro.  It uses those two industries and not a manufacturing industry.  JBP estimates less than 30 sticker jobs in the nation.