Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers
Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers slaughter animals, clean, cut and dress meat and fish, remove bones and prepare related food items or preserve meat, fish and other foods and food products by drying, salting or smoking.
Skill level: Semi-skilledCheck your pay
- Salary range for the majority of workers in Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers - from R7 800 to R32 079 per month - 2026.
- A Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers typically earns between R7 800 and R13 876 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R8 995 and R17 578 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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Duties and tasks
- Slaughtering animals
- Flaying and trimming carcasses
- Boning, cutting and dressing meat and fish for sale or further processing
- Preparing ingredients and making sausages and similar products using chopping, mixing and shaping machines
- Curing meat, fish and other foods
- Operating smokehouses or ovens to smoke meat, fish and other foodstuffs
- Cooking or in other ways preparing meat, fish and related food items for sale
- Selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing and labelling products, and receiving payment
