"This is the best news that we have received this year," said Julio Morel, who earns $9.30 an hour after working for three and a half years as a food preparation worker and server at Goldman Sachs.
The report by the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group, found that while 60 percent of the jobs lost during the downturn were in midwage occupations, 73 percent of the jobs added since the recession ended had been in lower-wage occupations, like cashier, stocking clerk or food preparation worker.
The occupations with the fastest growth were retail sales (at a median wage of $10.97 an hour) and food preparation workers ($9.04 an hour).
Chefs and other food preparation workers are at a high risk of scald injuries from hot liquids.
The jobs with the highest expected growth are also among the jobs that are least likely to provide a living wage, occupations like personal care aides (median salary: $19,910 per year), retail sales people ($21,110 per year), home health aides ($20,820 per year), food preparation workers ($18,260 per year), and the list goes on.
These include roles like home care aides and food preparation workers.
Other occupations that have been socked include restaurant cooks (-7.1 percent), food preparation workers (-5.2) and maids and housekeepers (-5.0).
Nearly three-quarters of the jobs added during the recovery are in lower-wage; occupations, like cashiers, stocking clerks, or food preparation workers.
Currently, the median wage for food service and food preparation workers is $8.90 an hour in New York City, according to the New York State Department of Labor, the lowest of any occupation.
In fact, sportfishing accounts for more than 12,000 jobs in Kentucky, which is more than the entire coal mining workforce in the state, including all underground and surface miners, preparation plant workers and office workers combined.
Because two Opisthopsis PG01 individuals were pooled for the gDNA preparation (one worker and one pupa), it is possible that this reflects standing genetic variation between host individuals, a subject for future investigation.
