Can AI Replace Butchers and Meat Cutters in 2026?

Lower exposure. AI could handle about 18% of today's butchers and meat cutters tasks by 2036, and there is a 17% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

10%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

11% 2030 · 17% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

~1 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks or keep records of meat sales".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Total sales, and collect money from customers".Get visibly better at your human core: "Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter to appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.

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Based on 12 O*NET tasks for "Butchers and Meat Cutters" (SOC 51-3021.00). LLM alone: 5% of tasks; with AI tools: 21%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10