Food Batchmakers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Food Batchmakers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $35,340. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 171,660 jobs nationally, Food Batchmakers make up 0.11% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Wisconsin alone holds 18,610 of those jobs, the top three states hold 26.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wisconsin (location quotient 5.72, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $26,950 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($57,800) is 1.9 times the 10th percentile ($30,850), a gap of $26,950 a year. The mean of $42,830 sitting above the median of $40,790 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Food Batchmakers runs from the $48,790 median in Iowa down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Wisconsin (18,610 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Food Batchmakers stands number 185 by employment and number 693 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 11% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.0% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 16 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $40,790, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is the largest metro employer with 9,500 jobs, 5.5% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $22,340 a year, against $61,680 in Cedar Rapids, IA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Food Batchmakers paycheck, gross, is $1,569 every two weeks on an annual $40,790, which is $3,399 a month and $784 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,340) to the 75th ($49,010) is worth $13,670 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $44,869 would sit between the median ($40,790) and the 75th percentile ($49,010), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,340, is $5,450 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers, Cutters and Trimmers, Hand, Woodworkers, All Other, Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders, Pourers and Casters, Metal, Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.