# Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

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

- **SOC code:** 51-3022.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3022-00
- **Also known as:** Deboner, Meat Cutter, Trimmer, Wing Scorer, Beef Trimmer, Breast Trimmer, Chicken Cutter, Fish Processor
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming.
- Weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents.
- Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use.
- Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat.
- Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing.
- Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers.
- Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading.
- Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing.
- Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from carcass.
- Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.
- Produce hamburger meat and meat trimmings.
- Clean and salt hides.

**Emerging tasks** (O*NET):
- Clean meat cutting equipment.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Production and Processing _(knowledge)_
- Food Production _(knowledge)_
- Public Safety and Security _(knowledge)_
- Mathematics _(knowledge)_
- Administration and Management _(knowledge)_
- Arm-Hand Steadiness _(ability)_
- Mechanical _(knowledge)_
- Personnel and Human Resources _(knowledge)_
- Transportation _(knowledge)_
- Control Precision _(ability)_
- Near Vision _(ability)_
- Education and Training _(knowledge)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Mathematics _(Common Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- Visualization _(Specialized Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- Microsoft Excel _(Common Skill)_
- Information Ordering _(Specialized Skill)_
- Finger Dexterity _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Time Management _(Common Skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Chemistry _(Specialized Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Web browser software _(in demand)_
- Meat inventory software
- Sales software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 24th percentile (Low) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.):** 14th percentile (Low) — source: felten_aioe.
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 3rd percentile (Low) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 61st percentile (Moderate) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Frey–Osborne (2013, historical computerization estimate):** 86th percentile — kept separate from current-era studies.
- **Remote-capable (Dingel–Neiman):** no — task structure, not who actually works remote.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 5.5% growth (About average); 18.4k annual openings; 146.8k → 154.9k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $37,700; 141,090 employed.

## 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/
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“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
- **Frey & Osborne (2013)** (frey-osborne-automation) — academic. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-future-of-employment/
- **Dingel & Neiman (2020)** (dingel-neiman-workathome) — academic. https://github.com/jdingel/DingelNeiman-workathome

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-3022-00_