Furniture-Rental Consultant Does Not Belong in or Alone in NAICS 523000 or NAICS 532100

This is part 4 of the series on furniture-rental consultant.  In part 1, we addressed Job Browser Pro and its listing of the occupational group SOC 41-2021 and industry designations of NAICS 532000 and 5320A1.  In part 2, we looked at those occupation-industry designations through the Occupational Employment Statistics and the Employment Projections.  In part 3, we examined the number of counter and rental clerks in NAICS 532289 and 532420, industries that the Census Bureau classifies as renting furniture.

In this final installment, we want to put to rest the idea that NAICS 532000 as both duplicating NAICS 5320A1 and including NAICS 532100 is improper because JBP already allocates the latter designation to other DOT codes.  We already know from the NAICS structure that NAICS 532100 plus 5320A1 equals 532000.  The question is whether we should count NAICS 5321000 at all.  Here is that portion of the NAICS structure:

532 Rental and Leasing Services

5321 Automotive Equipment Rental and Leasing

53211 Passenger Car Rental and Leasing

532111 Passenger Car Rental

532112 Passenger Car Leasing

53212 Truck, Utility Trailer, and RV (Recreational Vehicle) Rental and Leasing

532120 Truck, Utility Trailer, and RV (Recreational Vehicle) Rental and Leasing

It is patent that furniture-rental consultant does not work in the automotive equipment rental and leasing industry group or the sectors that fall into that group.  Furniture-rental consultant does not belong in NAICS 523000 or NAICS 532100. 

Nor is listing furniture-rental consultant necessary to cover the industry with some form of counter and rental clerks.  Job Browser Pro has an "advanced searches" on the home screen, below the job title search bar, three rows down, it is green.  "Choose a code system to search," select "OES/SOC 2010/O*NET."  The major SOC groups are listed, select 41.  Now double-click on 41-2021, counter and rental clerks.  Clicking on industry sort allows us to see the third and fourth entries for automobile rental clerk and trailer-rental clerk, both in the automotive service industry.  Double-click on automobile rental clerk and then proceed to employment numbers and the DOT estimate.

There it is.  NAICS 532100 listing 32,950 jobs as a counter clerk, three DOT codes, and 10,983 attributed to automobile rental clerk.  The three occupations within the occupation-industry intersection are trailer-rental clerk, automobile rental clerk, and tool-and-equipment-rental clerk.   Furniture-rental consultant does not belong alone in NAICS 523000 or NAICS 532100, if it belongs in either designation at all.  Job Browser Pro has counted all the counter and rental clerk jobs twice in using NAICS 532000 and failed to reduce the number of jobs for the other DOT codes that exist in NAICS 532100 and 5320A1.

Using JBP's own methodology and taking care to avoid counting jobs for one occupation that the system has already counted, it is clear that furniture-rental consultant does not belong in much less alone in NAICS 523000 or NAICS 532100,

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SUGGESTED CITATION:

Lawrence Rohlfing, Furniture-Rental Consultant Does Not Belong in or Alone in NAICS 523000 or NAICS 532100, California Social Security Attorney (December 13, 2019),
https://californiasocialsecurityattorney.blogspot.com/2019/11/furniture-rental-consultant-does-not.html