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Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers · SOC 51-3022

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$38,830
Median hourly wage$18.67

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $38,830 per year ($18.67 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $34,810 at the 10th percentile to $54,280 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,250 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in the Boston metro area earn more than $38,830 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $36,560 and $43,040.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$34,810$36,560$38,830$43,040$54,280
Hourly$16.73$17.58$18.67$20.69$26.10

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $38,830
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $36,570
  • United Statesnational
    $38,300

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +6% vs Massachusetts overall and +1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$21,470$31,663$41,857$52,050Rocky Mount, NC — $21,470Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $23,290San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $24,550Mobile, AL — $26,470Monroe, LA — $26,670McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $27,460Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $28,260Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $28,440New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $28,630Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $28,840Clarksville, TN-KY — $29,320Cedar Rapids, IA — $29,400Johnson City, TN — $29,860Cleveland, TN — $30,160Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $30,190Knoxville, TN — $30,520Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $31,380Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $32,070Albuquerque, NM — $32,170Salisbury, MD — $32,210Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $32,240Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $32,430Jacksonville, FL — $32,470Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $32,690Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $33,470Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $33,580North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $33,710Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $34,010San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $34,240Duluth, MN-WI — $34,420Binghamton, NY — $34,470Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $34,980Bangor, ME — $35,010Merced, CA — $35,070Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $35,340Birmingham, AL — $35,410Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $35,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $35,520Columbia, SC — $35,660Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $35,670Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $36,030Rochester, MN — $36,050Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $36,060Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $36,070Oklahoma City, OK — $36,070Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $36,080Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $36,160Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $36,220Corpus Christi, TX — $36,270Modesto, CA — $36,270Stockton-Lodi, CA — $36,290Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $36,320Huntsville, AL — $36,400Raleigh-Cary, NC — $36,470Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $36,540Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $36,650Cleveland, OH — $36,660Greensboro-High Point, NC — $36,670Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $36,710Decatur, AL — $36,760Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $36,910New Haven, CT — $36,930Michigan City-La Porte, IN — $37,020Mankato, MN — $37,190San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $37,260Anchorage, AK — $37,280Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $37,320Port St. Lucie, FL — $37,440Fort Smith, AR-OK — $37,460Jackson, MS — $37,500Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $37,550Columbus, OH — $37,600Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $37,630Richmond, VA — $37,630Salinas, CA — $37,630Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $37,760Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $37,780Syracuse, NY — $37,790Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $37,940Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $37,940Hanford-Corcoran, CA — $37,950Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $37,980Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $38,020Green Bay, WI — $38,030Springfield, MA — $38,050Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $38,150San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $38,170Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $38,300Bellingham, WA — $38,340Rochester, NY — $38,440Lancaster, PA — $38,580Jackson, TN — $38,620St. Cloud, MN — $38,650Vallejo, CA — $38,660Morristown, TN — $38,720Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $38,750Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $38,770Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $38,830Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $39,300Reno, NV — $39,390Gainesville, GA — $39,420Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $39,470Urban Honolulu, HI — $39,730Naples-Marco Island, FL — $39,750Chattanooga, TN-GA — $39,790St. Louis, MO-IL — $39,860San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $39,930Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $40,090Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $40,640Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $40,690Fargo, ND-MN — $41,400St. Joseph, MO-KS — $41,890Canton-Massillon, OH — $41,920Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $42,140San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $42,750Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $43,150Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $43,190Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $43,340Boise City, ID — $43,480Winston-Salem, NC — $44,020Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $44,220Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $44,280Akron, OH — $45,170Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $45,750Portland-South Portland, ME — $45,800Kansas City, MO-KS — $45,820Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $47,580Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $48,550Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $48,880Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $48,890Omaha, NE-IA — $49,810Sheboygan, WI — $50,410Topeka, KS — $52,050

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Boston metro area has the 36th-highest published median for this occupation among the 133 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Massachusetts

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Boston metro areathis page
    $38,830
  • Springfield metro area
    $38,050

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$47,860Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers$48,060First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$82,660Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$58,210Machinists$72,060Bakers$38,570

Highest-paying metro areas for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmerss · Highest-paying occupations in Boston Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.