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Farm Labor Contractors — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$58,460

United States, 2025

Employment

310

United States, 2025

Typical education

Not recorded

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.

O*NET code
13-1074.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years

Typical tasks

  • Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
  • Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
  • Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
  • Supervise the work of contracted employees.
  • Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
  • Furnish tools for employee use.
  • Direct and transport workers to appropriate work sites.

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Salary analysis — United States

$30,930
10th
$35,720
25th
$58,460
Median
$79,590
75th
$84,050
90th

10th percentile

$30,930

25th percentile

$35,720

75th percentile

$79,590

90th percentile

$84,050

Most important skills

  • Speaking3.4
  • Active Listening3.1
  • Coordination3.1
  • Management of Personnel Resources3.1
  • Monitoring3.0
  • Time Management3.0
  • Critical Thinking3.0
  • Judgment and Decision Making3.0
  • Social Perceptiveness3.0
  • Reading Comprehension2.8
  • Writing2.8
  • Instructing2.8

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Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 9 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

9

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Speaking3.43.4Not selected3.4
Management of Personnel Resources3.13.3Not selected3.3
Time Management3.03.3Not selected3.3
Coordination3.13.1Not selected3.1
Critical Thinking3.03.0Not selected3.0
Judgment and Decision Making3.03.0Not selected3.0
Social Perceptiveness3.03.0Not selected3.0
Active Listening3.12.9Not selected2.9
Monitoring3.02.9Not selected2.9

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
CA$85,7102025
FL$79,5902025
MN$50,7302025
All locations with published data

Career transition paths

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.