# Food Processing Workers

> SOC minor group 51-3000 within Production Occupations — 8 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 51-3000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/food-processing-workers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 857,260.
- **Median wage:** $39,375.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 4.5%.
- **Annual openings:** 121.1.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 6th percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Bakers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3011-00) — $36,650; 0th percentile overlap
- Food Batchmakers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3092-00) — $40,790; 0th percentile overlap
- Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3022-00) — $37,700; 0th percentile overlap
- Butchers and Meat Cutters (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3021-00) — $38,960; 0th percentile overlap
- Slaughterers and Meat Packers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3023-00) — $39,790; 0th percentile overlap
- Food Processing Workers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3099-00) — $38,420
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3093-00) — $40,550; 0th percentile overlap
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3091-00) — $42,730; 0th percentile overlap

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/food-processing-workers_