Slaughterhouse workers

In many of the locations where meat cutter, butcher, slaughterer, trimmer and packer jobs are most plentiful, the mean hourly wage trends at or below $15.00. That means where slaughterhouses provide a large portion of the available jobs, the pay is below the median hourly wage nationwide ($17.09).

Location quotient represents the ratio of an occupation’s share of employment in a given area to that occupation’s share of employment in the U.S. as a whole. A quotient below 1 means there are fewer slaughterhouse workers compared to other jobs, compared to the national average.