Production

Brewmasters

SOC 51-9012

Oversee the brewing process and develop the beers a craft brewery produces.

The job

Median pay

$52k

$44k to $64k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Declining

-5.7% projected

Openings a year

BLS projection

Typical education

Bachelor's plus cert

Our model

AI displacement risk

Moderate

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

18/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

41st pct

More exposed than 41% of occupations · modeled estimate · 34th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

38/100

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Key skills

Critical Thinking
Monitoring
Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Writing
Speaking

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	14,210	0.8	2.0×	$53k
New York	3,490	0.4	0.9×	$56k
Tennessee	2,450	0.7	1.9×	$50k
Michigan	2,230	0.5	1.3×	$49k
Pennsylvania	2,150	0.4	0.9×	$48k
Virginia	2,130	0.5	1.3×	$59k
Colorado	1,970	0.7	1.8×	$50k
Minnesota	1,810	0.6	1.6×	$57k
Missouri	1,590	0.5	1.4×	$49k
Washington	1,560	0.4	1.1×	$56k

All 51 states

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Wisconsin	1,520	0.5	1.3×	$60k
Indiana	1,510	0.5	1.2×	$54k
Kentucky	1,500	0.7	1.9×	$59k
Ohio	1,470	0.3	0.7×	$48k
Texas	1,460	0.1	0.3×	$47k
Oregon	1,340	0.7	1.8×	$50k
North Carolina	1,310	0.3	0.7×	$49k
Georgia	1,210	0.2	0.6×	$56k
Florida	1,150	0.1	0.3×	$50k
Iowa	1,090	0.7	1.8×	$52k
Nebraska	1,050	1.0	2.6×	$47k
Arizona	970	0.3	0.8×	$58k
New Jersey	930	0.2	0.6×	$58k
Idaho	780	0.9	2.4×	$52k
Illinois	780	0.1	0.3×	$48k
Louisiana	770	0.4	1.0×	$59k
New Hampshire	590	0.9	2.2×	$60k
Maryland	580	0.2	0.5×	$56k
Massachusetts	510	0.1	0.4×	$49k
Arkansas	500	0.4	1.0×	$42k
Utah	480	0.3	0.7×	$47k
South Carolina	470	0.2	0.5×	$49k
Kansas	450	0.3	0.8×	$49k
Maine	430	0.7	1.7×	$57k
Wyoming	410	1.5	3.8×	$109k
New Mexico	370	0.4	1.1×	$41k
Montana	340	0.7	1.7×	$48k
Connecticut	310	0.2	0.5×	$50k
Nevada	270	0.2	0.5×	$63k
North Dakota	270	0.6	1.6×	$59k
South Dakota	270	0.6	1.5×	$51k
Oklahoma	260	0.2	0.4×	$49k
Vermont	230	0.8	2.0×	$54k
Hawaii	160	0.3	0.7×	$51k
Alabama	140	0.1	0.2×	$47k
Rhode Island	140	0.3	0.7×	$47k
Delaware	110	0.2	0.6×	$48k
West Virginia	110	0.2	0.4×	$36k
Alaska	100	0.3	0.8×	$48k
Mississippi	100	0.1	0.2×	$44k
Washington DC	35	0.0	0.1×	$66k~

Top metro areas

Napa, CA1,400 jobs · $64k median
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,140 jobs · $60k median
Modesto, CA1,000 jobs · $74k median
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO980 jobs · $51k median
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA970 jobs · $62k median
Memphis, TN-MS-AR930 jobs · $50k median
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA800 jobs · $50k median
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI790 jobs · $58k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.