Economist (110) Qualifying Experience

The combination of education and experience must be sufficient to demonstrate that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform work in the occupation, and must be comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in the economics.

Examples of qualifying experience include:

• Individual economic research assignments requiring planning, information assembly, analysis and evaluation, conclusions and report preparation;
• Supervisory or project coordination assignments involving a staff of professional economists, and requiring the evaluation and interpretation of economic information;
• Teaching assignments in a college or university that included both class instruction in economics subjects and one of the following:
  • personal research that produced evidence of results,
  • direction of graduate theses in economics, or
  • service as a consultant or advisor on technical economics problems.

Experience that did not involve the use and understanding of economic principles and theories may not be used as qualifying experience for these positions. Special attention on this point should be given to certain types of work that may or may not have provided professional economic experience. The following examples of work require special care in such determinations: (a) economic statistics; (b) industrial surveys; (c) management of individual business enterprises, including farms; (d) industrial planning; (e) writing or editorial work in economic subjects; and (f) financial market analysis.