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United States
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Report generated from official BLS OEWS and O*NET data — United States.
Median annual wage
$35,660
United States, 2025
Employment
265,500
United States, 2025
Typical education
Less than a High School Diploma
Job Zone 2
Skills identified
35
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Career overview
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
- O*NET code
- 45-2092.00
- Job zone
- 2
- Experience required
- None
Typical tasks
- Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required.
- Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
- Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
- Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
- Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
- Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
- Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand.
- Set up and operate irrigation equipment.
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Salary analysis — United States
10th percentile
$32,900
25th percentile
$34,320
75th percentile
$38,840
90th percentile
$45,690
Most important skills
- Operations Monitoring3.0
- Speaking3.0
- Active Listening2.9
- Time Management2.8
- Critical Thinking2.8
- Monitoring2.8
- Operation and Control2.8
- Reading Comprehension2.8
- Social Perceptiveness2.8
- Writing2.8
- Repairing2.8
- Troubleshooting2.6
What skills do you need?
Select the skills you already have
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 2 identified skills
Matched
0
Missing
2
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Skills to develop
| Skill | Importance | Required level | Your level | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaking | 3.0 | 2.9 | Not selected | 2.9 |
| Operations Monitoring | 3.0 | 2.6 | Not selected | 2.6 |
Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.
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Compare with Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and GreenhouseHow salary varies by location
| Location | Median | Employment | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $55,180 | 50 | 2025 |
| Champaign, IL | $48,390 | 130 | 2025 |
| Portland, ME | $48,210 | 60 | 2025 |
| Bloomington, IL | $47,210 | 40 | 2025 |
| Helena, MT | $46,610 | 60 | 2025 |
| Lincoln, NE | $45,280 | 60 | 2025 |
| Bozeman, MT | $45,150 | 150 | 2025 |
| Napa, CA | $44,370 | 3,520 | 2025 |
| Sioux Falls, SD | $44,150 | 60 | 2025 |
| New York, NY | $43,970 | 2,230 | 2025 |
| San Jose, CA | $43,690 | 850 | 2025 |
| Santa Rosa, CA | $43,200 | 1,950 | 2025 |
| San Francisco, CA | $43,140 | 1,220 | 2025 |
| Boulder, CO | $43,020 | 150 | 2025 |
| Seattle, WA | $42,800 | 1,120 | 2025 |
| Davenport, IA | $42,630 | 110 | 2025 |
| Kennewick, WA | $42,340 | 2,470 | 2025 |
| Grand Rapids, MI | $42,290 | 2,000 | 2025 |
| SD | $42,260 | 190 | 2025 |
| Corvallis, OR | $42,170 | 50 | 2025 |
Career transition paths
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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.