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Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.

20 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
57 Market demand
31 AI leverage

Is Slaughterers and Meat Packers a safe career from AI?

Slaughterers and Meat Packers scores 20 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 45. 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 57 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Slaughterers and Meat Packers pay

The median wage is $39,790 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,940 and the upper quarter over $45,930. About 67,500 people do this work in the United States.

Where Slaughterers and Meat Packers can go next

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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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