Farm Labor Contractors Career, Salary and Skills
Farm Labor Contractors have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $58,460 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 310. Wage data is published for 3 locations.
Occupation description
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
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$58,460
Hourly median
$28.11
Employment
310
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking | 3.38 | 3.38 |
| Management of Personnel Resources | 3.12 | 3.25 |
| Active Listening | 3.12 | 2.88 |
| Coordination | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Monitoring | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Time Management | 3.00 | 3.25 |
| Writing | 2.75 | 2.75 |
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.
Technology
- Bookkeeping software
- E-Verify
- Financial accounting software
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Word
- SAP software
- Web browser software
Farm Labor Contractors salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Farm Labor Contractors Salary in FLMedian $79,590 · Employment —
- Farm Labor Contractors Salary in MNMedian $50,730 · Employment —
- Farm Labor Contractors Salary in CAMedian $85,710 · Employment —
Related careers
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service WorkersNational median $48,590
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction WorkersNational median $79,920
- First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales WorkersNational median $87,520
- Farm and Home Management EducatorsNational median $60,220
- Construction ManagersNational median $114,990
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving WorkersNational median $44,080
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and GreenhouseNational median $35,660
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger AttendantsNational median not published
Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.