Description of job categories for reporting purposes.
LABORERS (UNSKILLED)
Workers in manual occupations which generally require no
special training who perform elementary duties that may be learned
in a few days and require the application of little or no independent
judgment. Includes: garage laborers, car washers and greasers, groundskeepers
and gardeners, farm workers, stevedores, wood choppers, laborers performing
lifting, digging, mixing, loading and pulling operations, and kindred
workers.
OFFICE AND CLERICAL
Includes all clerical-type work regardless of level of difficulty,
where the activities are predominantly non-manual, though some manual
work not directly involved with altering or transporting the products
is included. Includes: bookkeepers, collectors (bills and accounts),
messengers and office helpers, office machine operators (including
computers), shipping and receiving clerks, stenographers, typists
and secretaries, telegraph and telephone operators, legal assistants,
and kindred workers.
OFFICIALS AND MANAGERS
Occupations requiring administrative and managerial personnel
who set broad policies, exercise overall responsibility of execution
of these policies and direct individual departments or special phases
of the County's operations. Includes: officials, executives,
middle management, managers, department managers, and superintendents,
salaried supervisors who are members of management, purchasing agents
and buyers, and other officers, farm operators and managers, and kindred
workers.
OPERATIVES (SEMISKILLED)
Workers who operate machine or processing equipment or perform
other factory-type duties of intermediate skill level which can be
mastered in a few weeks and require only limited training. Includes:
apprentices (auto mechanics, plumbers, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians,
machinists, mechanics, building trades, metalworking trades, printing
trades, etc.), operatives, attendants (auto service and parking),
blasters, chauffeurs, delivery workers, sewers and stitchers, dryers,
furnace workers, heaters, laundry and dry-cleaning operatives, milliners,
mine operatives and laborers, motor operators, oilers and greasers
(except auto), painters (manufactured articles), photographic process
workers, truck and tractor drivers, knitting, looping, taping and
weaving machine operators, welders and flame cutters, electrical and
electronic equipment assemblers, butchers and meat cutters, inspectors,
testers and graders, hand packers and packagers, and kindred workers.
PROFESSIONALS
Occupations requiring either college graduation or experience
of such kind and amount as to provide a comparable background. Includes:
accountants and auditors, airplane pilots and navigators, architects,
artists, chemists, designers, dietitians, editors, engineers, lawyers,
librarians, mathematicians, natural scientists, registered professional
nurses, personnel and labor relations specialists, physical scientists,
physicians, social scientists, teachers, surveyors, and kindred workers.
SERVICE WORKERS
Workers in both protective and nonprotective service occupations.
Includes: attendants (hospital and other institutions, professional
and personal service, including nurses aides, and orderlies), barbers,
charworkers and cleaners, cooks, counter and fountain workers, elevator
operators, firefighters and fire protection, guards, door keepers,
stewards, janitors, police officers and detectives, porters, waiters
and waitresses, amusement and recreation facilities attendants, guides,
ushers, public transportation attendants, and kindred workers.
TECHNICIANS
Occupations requiring a combination of basic scientific knowledge
and manual skill which can be obtained through two years of post-high-school
education, such as is offered in many technical institutes and junior
colleges, or through equivalent on-the-job training. Includes: computer
programmers, drafters, engineering aides, junior engineers, mathematical
aides, licensed, practical or vocational nurses, photographers, radio
operators, scientific assistants, technical illustrators, technicians
(medical, dental, electronic, physical science), and kindred workers.