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What butchers make
Median
$40,140
Bottom tenth
$29,460
Top tenth
$58,110
The national median is $40,140 a year, the bottom tenth earn $29,460 or less and the top tenth $58,110 or more, from the 2025 federal wage survey. 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.