Employment Opportunities in
Food Processing
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Photo by: Kathryn Elsesser-Luba |
An education at MJC opens doors, increases opportunities, and
ultimately earnings. By getting a degree or certificate from MJC you
immediately set yourself ahead of 70% of other applicants.
Following is just some of the careers you can join, in the Food Processing.
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Food
processing workers held 725,000 jobs in 2004. Employment among
the various types of food processing occupations was distributed
as follows:
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Bakers |
166,000 |
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Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers |
140,000 |
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Slaughterers and meat packers |
136,000 |
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Butchers and meat cutters |
134,000 |
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Food batchmakers |
87,000 |
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Food cooking machine operators and tenders |
43,000 |
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Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine
operators and tenders |
18,000 |
Thirty-five percent of all food processing workers were
employed in animal slaughtering and processing plants. Another
23 percent were employed at grocery stores. Most of the
remainder worked in other food manufacturing industries.
Butchers, meatcutters, and bakers are employed in almost every
city and town in the Nation, while most other food processing
jobs are concentrated in communities with food-processing
plants. |
Quoted from CollegeGrad website. Read the entire article
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