Employment Percentage:
-57.339821573398
SOC ID:
43-5053
SOC Title:
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
ONET ID:
43-5053.00
ONET Concat ID:
43505300
Median Salary:
60030.48
Ed Level High School:
93.870003
Ed Level Certificate:
0
Ed Level Some College:
6.14
Ed Level Associates:
0
Ed Level Bachelors:
0
Ed Level Masters:
0
Ed Level Doctor:
0
Typical Ed Level:
a high school diploma or less
Description:
Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. Examine, sort, and route mail. Load, operate, and occasionally adjust and repair mail processing, sorting, and canceling machinery. Keep records of shipments, pouches, and sacks; and other duties related to mail handling within the postal service.
Core Tasks:
<ul><li>Clear jams in sorting equipment.</li><li>Operate various types of equipment, such as computer scanning equipment, addressographs, mimeographs, optical character readers, and bar-code sorters.</li><li>Sort odd-sized mail by hand, sort mail that other workers have been unable to sort, and segregate items requiring special handling.</li></ul>
Start Annual Earnings:
35751.61
Top Annual Earnings:
61397.41
Title Slug:
postal-service-mail-sorter-processor-and-processing-machine-operator