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{{Short description|Public perception of an individual's job}}
[[Sociologist]]s use the concept of '''occupational prestige''' (also known as '''job prestige''') to measure the relative [[social class|social-class]] positions people may achieve by practicing a given [[job|occupation]]. Occupational prestige results from the consensual rating of a job - based on the belief of that job's worthiness. The term ''prestige'' itself refers to the [[reputation|admiration and respect]] that a particular occupation holds in a [[society]]. Occupational prestige is prestige independent of particular individuals who occupy a job. Sociologists have identified prestige rankings for more than 700 occupations based on results from a series of national surveys. They have created a scale (with 0 being the lowest possible score and 100 being the highest) and then rank given occupations based on survey results.<ref>
{{Cite journal|last1= Hauser|first1= Robert M.|last2= Warren|first2= John Robert|date= 1997|title= Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique|journal= Sociological Methodology|language= en|volume= 27|issue= 1|pages= 177–298|doi= 10.1111/1467-9531.271028|s2cid= 143449571|issn= 1467-9531 | quote = We conclude that composite indexes of occupational socioeconomic status are scientifically obsolete.}}
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Different people seem to weight these issues differently in their understanding of prestige. Most people seem to implicitly view prestige as a weighted average of income and education and this is the operational definition used in indices like DSI and ISEI. However other people (especially in the working class) seem to have more moralized notions of how much a job helps society and would, for instance, rate doctors high and lawyers low even though both jobs require postgraduate degrees and earn high incomes.<ref>Donald J. Treiman. (1977). Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective. New York: ''Academic Press''.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Young | first1 = Michael | last2 = Willmott | first2 = Peter | year = 1956 | title = Social Grading by Manual Workers | journal = British Journal of Sociology | volume = 7 | issue = 4| pages = 337–345 | doi=10.2307/586697| jstor = 586697 }}</ref>
The indicators most commonly used to measure SES come from Duncan's (1961) Socioeconomic Index (SEI), a composite of occupational prestige, income, and education. Duncan used data from North and Hart's study of 1949 occupational prestige and census data <ref name="North1949"/> to conduct the first correlational study of the statistical relationship between education, income, and occupation. Duncan focused on white males with at least a high school education and income of $3,500
The SEI model continues to influence the way researchers measure SES. The National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88, NCES, 1988) initially employed a measure of SES developed by Stevens and Featherman (1981) based on father's income, mother's income, father's education, mother's education, and father's and mother's occupation as rated by the SEI model. In the first-year follow-up study, the [[National Center for Education Statistics]] (1990) used the Nakao and Treas (1994) revised SEI model.
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