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. Industries with the highest published employment and wages for Slaughterers and Meat Packers are provided. For a list of all industries with employment in Slaughterers and Meat Packers, see the Create Customized Tables function. States and areas with the highest published employment, location quotients, and wages for Slaughterers and Meat Packers are provided.
States with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in Slaughterers and Meat Packers:. Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in Slaughterers and Meat Packers:. Nonmetropolitan areas with the highest concentration of jobs and location quotients in Slaughterers and Meat Packers:.
These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors, all metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, and all states and the District of Columbia.
The top employment and wage figures are provided above. To receive the news by email you just have to subscribe. The US Pork Checkoff has created an interactive map of the slaughterhouses across the country that process pigs. Each plant's slaughter capacity is listed and each listing is kept updated with the latest working status the plant fully operating, under capacity, or closed.
This useful tool comes in light of many plant shut-downs due to workers infected by COVID and the consequential executive order to keep meat and poultry processing facilities open. Top photo CC-licensed by North Charleston. Monica Nickelsburg is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. She is a contributing editor to GeekWire and covers public policy, technology, immigration, and workers rights. Learn more on her website and on twitter at mnickelsburg.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. By Lisa Held. By Beth Hoffman. By Sky Chadde, Investigate Midwest. Since , large-scale livestock operations have skirted air pollution laws under a deal with the second Bush administration.
Now, advocates are petitioning the EPA to do its duty. By Shoshi Parks. By Rachel Cernansky. By Julie Keown-Bomar. By Jonnah Perkins. By Caitlin Daniel. By Gosia Wozniacka. By Andi Murphy. By Monica Nickelsburg October 19, Read more about Animal Ag Business. Policy Solutions for a Lopsided System The widespread consolidation in the meat industry—four firms control more than 80 percent of the beef processing market, for instance—and federal laws requiring large animals to be processed at a slaughterhouse under the supervision of a USDA inspector have left many small meat producers in a bind.
State-Level Responses While they await changes at the federal level, several states have also launched supplementary programs to expand local meat processing. Get the weekly Civil Eats newsletter, delivered to your inbox. Sign up today.
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