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Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.
What a food cooking machine operators and tender does
Become a food cooking machine operators and tender
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good food cooking machine operators and tender
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $29 per hour with a typical salary of $65,600 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $24 and $32 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $25,700 and $71,700 per year.
- 60% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- 23.3% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Food Cooking Machine Operators And Tender job outlook
- There are 278 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 124 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 16% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.