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Job Description
Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-3021.00
 - The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 31,740.00
 - The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 15.00
 - Currently, there are 133,880 people on this job
 
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Butchers and Meat Cutters”.
Also Known As…
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
 - Seafood and Service Meat Manager
 - Meat Wrapper
 - Meat Trimmer
 - Meat Specialist
 - Meat Manager
 - Meat Department Manager
 - Meat Cutter
 - Meat Clerk
 - Journeyman Meat Cutter
 - Butcher
 - Small Order Cutter
 - Slicer
 - Seafood Service Team Member
 - Seafood Clerk
 - Meatman
 - Meat Team Member
 - Meat Supervisor
 - Meat Slicer
 - Meat Service Team Member
 - Meat Loiner
 - Meat Dresser
 - Meat Cutter Apprentice
 - Meat Counter Worker
 - Meat Carver
 - Kosher Butcher
 - Halal Butcher
 - Cleaver
 - Butcher Assistant
 - Butcher Apprentice
 - Blockman
 
Tasks for “Meat Clerk”
- Wrap, weigh, label and price cuts of meat.
 - Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery, to ensure meat quality.
 - Supervise other butchers or meat cutters.
 - Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories.
 - Negotiate with representatives from supply companies to determine order details.
 - Cure, smoke, tenderize and preserve meat.
 - Total sales, and collect money from customers.
 - Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine.
 - Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare meat in cooking form.
 - Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter, so they will appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye.
 - Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.
 - Record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks or keep records of meat sales.
 
Related Technology & Tools
- Pallet jacks
 - Whizzard knives
 - Meat cubers
 - Brisket cutters
 - Protective ear plugs
 - Auto feed grinders
 - Frozen food saws
 - Bowl choppers
 - Sausage linkers
 - Hog shackles
 - T-handle boning hooks
 - Hand blenders
 - Handsaws
 - Bacon slicers
 - Beef shackles
 - Food metal detectors
 - Meat cutting band saws
 - Mincing machines
 - Meat scales
 - Trim knives
 - Anti-griddles
 - Personal computers
 - Thermal circulators
 - Meat dehydrators
 - Dicers
 - Air knives
 - Boning hooks
 - Dough mixers
 - Protective ear muffs
 - Food thermometers
 - Meat stringing machines
 - Material conveyors
 - Rotisserie ovens
 - Boning knives
 - Butcher knives
 - Frozen block grinders
 - Balers
 - Meat hoists
 - Hamburger presses
 - Chefs' knives
 - Butcher saws
 - Vacuum package machines
 - Knife sharpeners
 - Breaking knives
 - Net applicators
 - Power staple guns
 - Bone dusters
 - Beef splitting saws
 - Specific gravity fat analyzers
 - Paring knives
 - Wrapping machines
 - Poultry shears
 - Fish skinners
 - Fish scalers
 - Label printers
 - Meatball molders
 - Meat cleavers
 - Smokehouses
 
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 - Microsoft Outlook
 - Microsoft Office
 - Financial accounting software
 - Microsoft Word