Food Processing Occupations

Significant Points

Most employees in manual food-processing jobs require little or no training prior to being hired.
As more jobs involving cutting and processing meat shift from retail stores to food-processing plants, job growth will be concentrated among lesser skilled workers, who are employed primarily in manufacturing.

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Area and Industry employment and wages
Bakers: (Area) (Industry)
Butchers and meat cutters: (Area) (Industry)
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers: (Area) (Industry)
Slaughterers and meat packers: (Area) (Industry)
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders: (Area) (Industry)
Food batchmakers: (Area) (Industry)
Food cooking machine operators and tenders: (Area) (Industry)

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