Who is higher up on the food chain? A cashier or a janitor? (union, status)
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A cashier. In most cases, a cashier would need to be literate and presentable, which are not necessarily requirements for a janitor. So, in principle at least, the cashier could get into a management training program and end up as CEO. This would be less likely for the janitor, although still possible, I guess. Just an opinion . . .
It could be a 17 year old after school cashier, and a contract janitor who owns his own company.
Impossible to answer with current info, and who really cares?
Either one of them could be doing their jobs as second jobs while working other more "status" jobs during the other part of the day. The programmer could clean toilets in the evenings, or the paralegal could run a register at Target when not working for the law firm. How would you know, and why does it matter? Would you treat one of these any better than the other?
Or the janitor who has a public sector job with probably the same benefits as those at the top of the pay scale and there are very few cashiers in the public sector. Some and they are higher on the food chain than janitors and cashiers who don't work in the public sector.
That is to say, what are you hoping to do with the information should you be able to prove it one way or another?
Not sure if you mean me but Cashiers and Janitors in the public sector usually come with better skill sets and work habits as the jobs tend to be more competitive to get or knowing someone. When the great recession hit and folks with decent jobs starting losing them along with health care benefits many tried to rush to the public sector especially school systems seeking jobs and benefits. Also public sector custodians etc had better job security along with a pension, health care benefits etc. Probably much better than comparable positions in the private sector and better than many positions higher on the social scale in the private sector. Check out studies that compare public/private sector salaries and benefits and you will see that at the lower end public sector benefits exceed private but not at the upper end.
A question like this makes sense only ceteris paribus -- a Burger King cashier vs a Burger King janitor, for example.
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