SOC 51-3023 · Production Occupations · May 2025
How much do Slaughterers and Meat Packers make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?
In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Slaughterers and Meat Packers in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $36,270. The 10th percentile is $35,320 and the 90th percentile is $45,800. Employment is 840.
Median annual wage
$36,270
- 10th percentile
- $35,320
- 25th percentile
- $35,730
- Median
- $36,270
- 75th percentile
- $39,450
- 90th percentile
- $45,800
- Mean
- $39,040
Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

Percentile spread
For Slaughterers and Meat Packers, the published 10th percentile is $35,320 and the 90th percentile is $45,800. The difference is $10,480, which is 28.9% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.
The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $35,730 to the 75th at $39,450, covers $3,720.
The mean annual wage is $39,040, which sits above the median of $36,270. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.
National and state comparison
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA median is 9.6% lower than the national median of $40,130 for Slaughterers and Meat Packers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $31,937, which is 20.4% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.
It is 8% lower than the California median of $39,420.
Price-adjusted pay
The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $36,270 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Slaughterers and Meat Packers at $31,937 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.
Nearby metros
No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Slaughterers and Meat Packers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.
Employment share
Slaughterers and Meat Packers accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (840 of 6,271,560). Nationally the occupation is 0.04% of employment (69,950 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.30 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.
Highest-paying jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Slaughterers and Meat Packers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices
Questions this page answers
How much do Slaughterers and Meat Packers make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?
In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Slaughterers and Meat Packers in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $36,270. The 10th percentile is $35,320 and the 90th percentile is $45,800. Employment is 840.
How does that compare with the national median for Slaughterers and Meat Packers?
The local median is 9.6% lower than the national median of $40,130.
What is Slaughterers and Meat Packers pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA after local prices?
The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $36,270 is $31,937. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.