Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

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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

  • Average hourly rate is $19 per hour with an average salary of $40,300 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $17 and $22 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $34,500 and $46,100 per 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.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

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