Food Processing Workers, All Other

Production Occupations
O*NET-SOC code
51-3099.00

All food processing workers not listed separately.

  • Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08

    Moderate· relative

    LowFour relative bandsVery high

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)

    831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band

    Source dataset (XLSX download)

  • Data source: ILOPublished: 2025

    0.15· 2 ISCO-08 groups

    Scale, basis and source

    Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published

    Published per ISCO-08 unit group. Linked to this occupation, wholly or in part, by applying U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics crosswalks (ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC, 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC) as published

    Source dataset (PDF download)

What kind of figure this source publishes

The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.

ILO value for each linked ISCO-08 group
  • ISCO-08 7514Fruit, Vegetable and Related Preservers0.15
  • ISCO-08 8160Food and Related Products Machine Operators0.15

AI exposure (OpenAI rubric)

The OpenAI rubric has no rated tasks for this occupation code.

Tasks

The O*NET® 31.0 Database lists no task statements for this occupation.

Occupation information

Employment outlook (BLS)

Employment, 2025
67K
Projected employment, 2035
71K
Change (2025–35)
+5.5%
Median annual wage, 2025
$39,680
Typical education needed for entry
No formal educational credential
lowest $30,890median wage across 825 detailed occupations, BLS EP 2025–35highest $559,030

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35 — Employment by detailed occupation, 2025 and projected 2035

Korea classification links (KSCO)

Links from the current release of the Korea Occupation Direct Crosswalk v1.1, made by AI Changing Work. Relation values are read from the O*NET-SOC occupation side.

KSCO codeKSCO titleRelationStatus
71051김치 제조 종사원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
71052밑반찬 제조 종사원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
71060도시락 제조원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
71091건강원 및 탕제원 종사원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
71092수산물 가공 및 염장원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
81906건강식품 가공기 조작원This occupation is broaderconfirmed
71099그 외 식품 가공 관련 기능 종사원Overlapping, not the sameconfirmed

Relation and status definitions(kr-direct v1.1)

ILO occupational description

AI Changing Work links the ISCO-08 unit groups below to this occupation by applying the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics crosswalks (2018 SOC to 2010 SOC, 2010 SOC to ISCO-08) as published, without case-by-case selection; each link may be whole or partial.

  • ISCO-08 7514Fruit, Vegetable and Related Preservers
  • ISCO-08 8160Food and Related Products Machine Operators

Sources: ILO ISCO-08 — details: Credits

ESCO occupational vocabulary

Each entry below is matched to this occupation in the published ESCO-O*NET Crosswalk (version 1, 2022). The match types are that crosswalk's; the wording is AI Changing Work's.

  • blanching operatorESCO 8160.4This occupation is broader

    Blanching operators remove outer coverings or skins from almonds and nuts in general. They cut leaves and impurities of raw material and control the flow of nuts, seeds, and/or leaves in the process. They use pressure and temperature to blanch the raw material if necessary.

  • cellar operatorESCO 8160.13This occupation is broader

    Fermentation cellar operators take charge of fermentation and maturation tanks. They control fermentation process of wort inoculated with yeast. They tend equipment that cools and adds yeast to wort as to produce beer. For the purpose, they control the flow of refrigeration that goes through cool coils regulating the temperature of hot wort in the tanks.

  • chocolate moulding operatorESCO 8160.16This occupation is broader

    Chocolate moulding operators tend machines and equipment that pour tempered chocolate into moulds to form bars, blocks, and other shapes of chococlate. They monitor machines to ensure that moulds do not jam.

  • cider fermentation operatorESCO 8160.17This occupation is broader

    Cider fermentation operators control the fermentation process of mash or wort inoculated with yeast.

  • cocoa mill operatorESCO 8160.20This occupation is broader

    Cocoa mill operators tend machines to pulverise cacao beans into powder of specified fineness. They use air classification systems that separate powder based on its density. Moreover, they weigh, bag, and stack the product.

  • cocoa press operatorESCO 8160.21This occupation is broader

    Cocoa press operators tend one or more hydraulic cocoa presses to remove specified amounts of cocoa butter (natural oil of cocoa bean) from chocolate liquor.

  • coffee grinderESCO 8160.22This occupation is broader

    Coffee grinders operate grinding machines to grind coffee beans to specified fineness.

  • dairy products makerESCO 7513.1This occupation is broader

    Dairy products makers artisanally process raw milk to make dairy products such as butter, cheese, cream and milk.

  • fish production operatorESCO 8160.32This occupation is broader

    Fish production operators regulate and supervise fish product manufacturing facilities. They keep stock of all required ingredients and equipment for mass manufacturing. They also perform processes such as moulding, breading, frying, freezing, setting the system's temperature and checking speeds.

  • fruit and vegetable cannerESCO 8160.36This occupation is broader

    Fruit and vegetable canners tend machines to prepare industrial products based on fruits and vegetables for storage or shipping. They perform a wide range of tasks  such as sorting, grading, washing, peeling, trimming, and slicing. Moreover, they follow procedures for canning, freezing, preserving, packing food products.

  • fruit-press operatorESCO 8160.35This occupation is broader

    Fruit-press operators tend power presses to extract juice from fruits. For the purpose, they spread fruit evenly in cloth before tending the press and keep filter bags between sections in the machines ready for the extraction process. They are in charge of removing filter bags or pull cart from press and dump fruit pulp residue into containers.

  • honey extractorESCO 8160.38This occupation is broader

    Honey extractors operate machines to extract liquid honey from honeycombs. They place decapped honeycombs in honey-extracting machine baskets to empty honeycombs.

+4 more

Source: European Commission, DG EMPL — ESCO API 2026-08-08 (bridge v1.2.1)

License: CC BY 4.0 (EU Reuse Notice)

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France classification links (ROME)

AI Changing Work's links between this occupation and ROME 4.0 job profiles, judged with AI models. Relations are read from this occupation's side. Links marked “provisional” were adopted on the judgments of two judges from the same model family (Claude) alone, or by an operator rule applied to their judgments, so they rest on weaker evidence than confirmed links.

ROME codeROME title (French)Relation
H2109Pilote d'installation automatisée en industrie alimentaireThis occupation is broader
A1443Cidrier / CidrièreRelated, not a match

Source: France Travail — Répertoire Opérationnel des Métiers et des Emplois (ROME 4.0), version 61, last updated 15 June 2026 (https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/repertoire-operationnel-des-metiers-et-des-emplois-rome). Licence Ouverte 2.0.

ROME codes and titles are reproduced unchanged; the links to O*NET-SOC occupations are AI Changing Work's own judgment and are not a France Travail correspondence.

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