Occupational Prestige: The Status Component of Socioeconomic Status

Hughes, Bradley T.; Srivastava, Sanjay; Leszko, Magdalena; Condon, David M.

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Occupational Prestige: The Status Component of Socioeconomic Status

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Hughes, Bradley T., Srivastava, Sanjay, Leszko, Magdalena, Condon, David M.·2024·Collabra: Psychology

DOI 10.1525/collabra.92882

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The relationship between life outcomes and an individual’s standing in the social and economic hierarchy of society is an important topic across the social sciences. Foundational to this work is assessing an individual’s standing in this hierarchy, often referred to as socioeconomic status (SES). One component of an individual’s SES, often overlooked in the psychological literature, is occupational prestige – the amount of status accorded to them based on their occupational role. In this research, we collected and validated a new index of occupational prestige for 1029 specific occupations, including all jobs in the US Department of Labor’s O*NET database, and 22 broader occupational families. In Study 1, we collected a comprehensive set of occupational prestige ratings from an online convenience sample, and demonstrated their high reliability. In Study 2, we developed a crosswalk between the ratings collected in Study 1 and prior ratings of occupations listed in the US Census and show convergent validity with previous indices. In Studies 3 and 4 we used additional data to evaluate the construct validity of occupational prestige more broadly. In Study 3, we established convergent and discriminant validity with other indicators of SES: income and educational attainment. In Study 4, we use the O*NET database to identify the characteristics of occupations most strongly associated with prestige. These results support the validity of the index and suggest occupations with high prestige require skills traditionally emphasized in liberal arts education (e.g., critical thinking, reading comprehension).

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The Conclusion table reports a prestige rating for street vendors, but it does not examine comments or summaries. Searches for the street-vendor/financial-analyst comparison and for summaries attributed to different occupations found no passage reporting the claimed difference. (LLM, conf=0.75)
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Occupations were deliberately selected with no obvious connection to environmental regulation, yet differential treatment persisted.
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The Procedure section describes collecting occupational-prestige ratings, not selecting occupations for an environmental-regulation study. The passages found for “environmental regulation” and the claimed selection criterion do not address whether those occupations were deliberately chosen for their lack of connection to regulation or whether differential treatment persisted. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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Authors: Hughes, B. T., Srivastava, S., Leszko, M., & Condon, D. M.
Affiliations: University of Oregon (US)
University of Szczecin (PL)
ORCID: Hughes, Bradley T.
Srivastava, Sanjay
Leszko, Magdalena
Condon, David M.
Venue: Collabra: Psychology
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2024
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
ISSN: 2474-7394 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1525/collabra.92882
OpenAlex: W4392840543
Cited by: 44
References: 106
Citations by year: 2026: 12 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4
FWCI: 28.69
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (vor, 47 d)
Locations: Collabra Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders: University of Oregon
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords: occupational prestige, socioeconomic status, occupational status, social hierarchy, construct validity, convergent validity, income, educational attainment, critical thinking, reading comprehension

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