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Slaughterers and Meat Packers pay in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI and Trenton-Princeton, NJ
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Slaughterers and Meat Packers is $43,680 per year in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI. It is $52,180 per year in Trenton-Princeton, NJ. Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI is 16.3% below Trenton-Princeton, NJ on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-3023 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 610 wage and salary jobs in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI and 40 in Trenton-Princeton, NJ. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.