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Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products vs Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products and Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$35,430
$37,700
Employment · BLS OEWS
26,870
141,090
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
7th pct
61st pct

At a glance

Dimension Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
Median pay $35,430 $37,700
Employment 26,870 141,090
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection Declining (-5.4%) About average (+5.5%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 5,100 18,400
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Low · 7th pct Moderate · 61st pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 19th pct · 16% of tasks 9th pct · 13% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — —
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman No No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Production and Processing, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, English Language, Oral Comprehension, Finger Dexterity, Mechanical, Monitoring, Oral Expression, Trunk Strength, Speech Recognition, Food Production, Active Listening, Speaking, Arm-Hand Steadiness, Speech Clarity, Education and Training, Problem Sensitivity, Critical Thinking, Coordination, Multilimb Coordination, Public Safety and Security, Administration and Management, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management, Information Ordering, Selective Attention, Far Vision.

Specific to Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products

  • Category Flexibility
  • Static Strength
  • Visual Color Discrimination
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Flexibility of Closure
  • Foreign Language
  • Reading Comprehension

Specific to Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

  • Mathematics
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Transportation
  • Control Precision
  • Visualization
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Social Perceptiveness
  • Reaction Time

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Spreadsheet software .

Specific to Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products

Specific to Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products or Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products vs Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/graders-and-sorters-agricultural-products-vs-meat-poultry-and-fish-cutters-and-trimmers

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Singulariki. (2026). Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products vs Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/graders-and-sorters-agricultural-products-vs-meat-poultry-and-fish-cutters-and-trimmers

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