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Job Category Definitions <br /> Job Category Definitions <br /> 1. Officials and Managers — Occupants requiring administrative personnel who set broad policies, <br /> exercise overall responsibility of execution of these policies and individual departments or special <br /> phases of a firm's operations. This includes: Officials, Executives, middle management, plant <br /> managers and superintendents, salaried supervisors who are members of management, purchasing <br /> agents and buyers and kindred workers. <br /> 2. Professional — Occupants requiring either college graduation or experience of such kind and <br /> amount as to provide a comparable background includes: accountants and auditors, airplane pilots <br /> and navigators, architects, artists, chemists, designers, dietitians, editors, engineers, lawyers, <br /> librarians, mathematicians, natural scientists, registered professional nurses, professional and labor <br /> relations workers,physical scientists, physicians, social scientists, teachers and kindred workers. <br /> 3. Technicians — Occupants requiring a combination of basic scientific knowledge and manual skill <br /> which can be obtained through about 2 years of post-high school education such as is offered in <br /> many technical institutions and junior colleges or through equivalent on the job training. This <br /> includes: computer programmers and operators, drafters, engineering aides, junior engineers, <br /> mathematic aides, licensed practical or vocational nurses, photographers, radio operators, scientific <br /> assistants, surveyors, technical illustrators, technicians (medical, dental, electronic physical science) <br /> and kindred workers. <br /> 4. Sales — Occupants engaging wholly or primarily in direct selling. This includes: advertising <br /> agenda and sales workers, insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents and brokers, sales <br /> workers, demonstrators and retail sales workers and sales clerks, grocery clerks and cashiers and <br /> kindred workers. <br /> 5. Office and Clerical — Includes all clerical-type work regardless of level of difficulty, where the <br /> activities are predominantly non-manual though some manual work not directly involved with <br /> altering or transporting the products is included. This includes: bookkeepers, cashiers, collectors <br /> (bills and accounts), messengers and office helpers, office machine operators, shipping and receiving <br /> clerks, stenographers,typists and secretaries, telegraph and telephone operators and kindred workers. <br /> 6. Craft Worker (skilled) — Manual workers of relatively high level having a thorough and <br /> comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in their work. Exercise considerable <br /> independent judgment and usually receive an extensive period of training. This includes: the <br /> building trades, hourly paid supervisors and lead operators (who are not members of management), <br /> mechanic and repairers, skilled machining occupations, compositors and typesetters, electricians, <br /> engravers, job setters (metal), motion picture projectionists, pattern and model makers, stationary <br /> engineers,tailors and kindred workers. <br /> Page 9 <br />