Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Meat Clerk: $38K median posted pay.
From 61 salary bands employers posted on 140 open meat clerk roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Hy-Vee | 68 | — |
| BJ’s Wholesale Club | 61 | — |
| Meijer | 7 | — |
| Meijer Stores Hourly | 3 | — |
| Quirch Foods | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open meat clerk roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Meat Cutting | 137 | — |
| Customer Service | 79 | — |
| Food Safety | 72 | — |
| Packaging Operations | 69 | — |
| Store Management | 68 | — |
| Department Management | 68 | — |
| Forklift Operation | 68 | — |
| Store Stocking | 68 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 65 | — |
| Payroll Processing | 61 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site100%140 roles
- Not stated0%0 roles
Make hospitality & food your path — free.
A CareerVersion remembers your record and shows you three real hospitality & food roles and the three skills the market asks for, on your first screen.
How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 140 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 61 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Meat Clerk (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in hospitality & food, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.