Animal Processing (WV)

Median Annual Income

$35,780

Projected Job Growth

+17 %

Career Cluster(s)

Hospitality, Events, & Tourism

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.

Median Annual Income

$32,420

Projected Job Growth

-4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Hospitality, Events, & Tourism

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

Median Annual Income

$47,540

Projected Job Growth

+2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Select and breed animals according to their genealogy, characteristics, and offspring. May require knowledge of artificial insemination techniques and equipment use. May involve keeping records on heats, birth intervals, or pedigree.

Median Annual Income

$34,360

Projected Job Growth

-5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition.

Median Annual Income

$34,470

Projected Job Growth

-2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

Median Annual Income

$35,120

Projected Job Growth

-5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep and collect eggs in hatcheries.

Median Annual Income

$37,650

Projected Job Growth

-2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.

Median Annual Income

$36,300

Projected Job Growth

+5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Agriculture

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

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

Median Annual Income

$39,850

Projected Job Growth

+2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Advanced Manufacturing

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.

Median Annual Income

$34,830

Projected Job Growth

-4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Supply Chain & Transportation

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.