Overview & Salary

Overview

Mix and bake ingredients to produce breads, rolls, cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, or other baked goods.

On the job, you would:

  • Check products for quality, and identify damaged or expired goods.
  • Set oven temperatures, and place items into hot ovens for baking.
  • Combine measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending, or cooking machinery.

Education

  • high school diploma/GED
  • no high school diploma/GED

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $24,960
Annual median $34,950
Annual 90th percentile $46,980

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • manufacture and distribution of products
  • food production

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • figuring out how to use new ideas or things

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Realistic

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

  • Attention to Detail
  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Stress Tolerance

Abilities

Hand and Finger Use

  • hold or move items with your hands
  • keep your arm or hand steady

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • communicate by speaking
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