Food Batchmakers

SOC 51-3092 · 2024-2034

Set up and operate equipment that mixes or blends ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products. Includes candy makers and cheese makers.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California: $42,621per year
Projected openings: 17,970
Projected change: +7.9%
Usually needs: High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

Operations Monitoring
Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Operation and Control
Speaking
Coordination

Pay by region

Region	Typical pay in California	Projected openings
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)	$51,791	130
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)	$48,293	120
Merced MSA (Merced County)	$47,882	310
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)	$47,882	520
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)	$47,359	520
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)	$46,702	400
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)	$46,538	380
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)	$45,512	120
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)	$44,596	1,620
Chico MSA (Butte County)	$43,963	50
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)	$43,645	110
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)	$43,519	1,030
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)	$42,824	1,010
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)	$42,465	460
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)	$41,152	580
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)	$40,926	480
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)	$39,541	1,440
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)	$39,139	4,580
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)	$38,682	1,390
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)	$38,464	130
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)	$37,530	240
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)	$37,510	150
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)	$37,489	560
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)	$36,925	470
San Rafael MD (Marin County)	Not reported	130
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)	Not reported	40

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains for	Typical pay in California	Projected openings	Projected change
Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders	$45,761	3,190	0%
Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders	$46,641	2,090	0%
Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$51,796	4,990	-8.5%
Bakers	$44,104	52,930	+8.8%
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders	$54,117	14,400	-4.8%
Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products	$37,314	11,300	-5.7%

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