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Slaughterers and Meat Packers · SOC 51-3023

Slaughterers and Meat Packers 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$37,800
Median hourly wage$18.17

Slaughterers and Meat Packers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $37,800 per year ($18.17 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $37,370 at the 10th percentile to $47,660 at the 90th. BLS estimates 90 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Slaughterers and Meat Packers in the Boston metro area earn more than $37,800 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $37,750 and $44,290.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$37,370$37,750$37,800$44,290$47,660
Hourly$17.97$18.15$18.17$21.29$22.92

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
    $37,800
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $37,780
  • United Statesnational
    $40,130

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

The median here is about the same vs Massachusetts overall and −6% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$22,910$32,667$42,423$52,180San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $22,910Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $29,750Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $29,910Albuquerque, NM — $30,580Rocky Mount, NC — $31,570Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $32,240Baton Rouge, LA — $32,870Jackson, MS — $34,530Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $34,720Goldsboro, NC — $34,780Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $35,140Knoxville, TN — $35,270Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $35,380New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $35,560Cleveland, OH — $35,630Gainesville, GA — $35,680Youngstown-Warren, OH — $35,940Raleigh-Cary, NC — $35,960Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $36,270Lebanon, PA — $36,420San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $36,580Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $36,830Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $37,020Oklahoma City, OK — $37,110Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $37,160Pittsburgh, PA — $37,170Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $37,270Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $37,570Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $37,800Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $38,290Fort Smith, AR-OK — $38,800St. Louis, MO-IL — $38,840Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $38,990Kansas City, MO-KS — $39,020Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $39,070Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $39,200Fresno, CA — $39,420Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $39,510Tyler, TX — $39,620Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $41,950Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $42,070Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $42,080Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $43,060Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $43,680Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $44,040Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $44,040Stockton-Lodi, CA — $44,490Madison, WI — $44,920Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $45,090Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $45,220San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $45,300Columbia, SC — $46,170Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $46,380Omaha, NE-IA — $46,390Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $46,670Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $46,990Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $48,030Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $48,120Corpus Christi, TX — $49,460Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $49,600Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $52,180

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 33rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 61 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”.

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 slaughterers and meat packerss · 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.