OES Code: 898020 LOS ANGELES COUNTY


JOB KEY FOR SLAUGHTERERS & BUTCHERS


Slaughterers and Butchers work in a slaughtering and meat packing establishment to prepare meat for sale by performing precision tasks, such as stunning, skinning and trimming, cutting standard cuts of meat for marketing, cleaning, and salting hides, making sausage, preparing meats for salting, and wrapping meats.

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PROJECTED ESTIMATES OF EMPLOYMENT (excluding self-employed)

Number Working
in this Occupation
---   Year   ---
1995       2002		 Percent
Change		 Increase/
Decrease		 Additional Openings
Due to People Chang-
ing Occupations
or Retiring 		Sum of
Increase/Decrease
and Additional
Openings
520 510 -2% -10 90 80


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HOW TO FIND BUSINESSES MOST LIKELY TO HIRE SLAUGHTERERS & BUTCHERS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY


The following are the types of firms that employ the most workers in this occupation within this county. They are listed in order from largest to smallest.


Industry Code
(SIC) 		Industry Title          
2011 Meat packing plants
2015 Poultry slaughtering & processing
2013 Sausage & other prepared meat processing

Look in the yellow pages of the phone book under the above or similar industry titles, or look in employer directories in libraries. Directories such as Business Prospector, California Services Register and those by chambers of commerce often list firms by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code.


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