Also called: Coffee Cupper, Green Coffee Buyer
Tastes and scores coffee beans and roasts them to bring out their flavors.
Coffee pros 'cup' dozens of coffees by slurping from spoons, score them on flavor, and roast batches to exact temperature curves. Green coffee buyers travel to farms in Ethiopia or Colombia.
Estimate; buyers and head roasters earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Coffee Quality Institute Q Grader certification and roasting experience.
Ways in: Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Growing about average. No separate BLS projection; estimate based on related occupations.
Low risk for 10 years. Roasting software logs temperature curves, but cupping, scoring and choosing beans stay human sensory work.
Classes: Chemistry, Culinary arts, Spanish, Business.
Official data: O*NET occupation 51-3099.
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