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Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Use hands or hand tools to perform routine cutting and trimming of meat, poultry, and seafood.

37 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
62 Market demand
42 AI leverage

Is Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers a safe career from AI?

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers scores 37 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 49. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 62 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.7% over ten years.

What Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers pay

The median wage is $37,700 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,050 and the upper quarter over $43,450. About 141,090 people do this work in the United States.

Where Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

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Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators 74% of the skills carry over $75k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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