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What butchers make
Typical
$40,140
Apprentice or counter help
$29,460
Head butcher or union shop
$58,110
The national median is $40,140 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $29,460. The survey counts Butchers and Meat Cutters together, so a supermarket meat cutter working from boxed beef and a shop butcher breaking whole animals both sit in the same figure.