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Butchers and Meat Cutters
Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
What a butchers and meat cutter does
Become a butchers and meat cutter
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good butchers and meat cutter
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $28 per hour with a typical salary of $52,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $20 and $31 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $14,500 and $56,700 per year.
- 58% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $24 per hour with a typical salary of $26,900 per year.
- 47.8% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Butchers And Meat Cutter job outlook
- There are 2,832 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 515 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 3% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 18% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.