Butchers and Meat Cutters

Manufacturing In demand
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

  • Average hourly rate is $22 per hour with an average salary of $46,200 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $18 and $25 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $37,800 and $52,300 per 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.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

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