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    Farm Labor Contractors

    Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers.

    Median pay
    $58,460
    Growth
    +7.4%
    Faster than average
    Openings a year
    100
    Typical education
    No formal credential

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $30,930
    Median
    $58,460
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $84,050
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    310 people work in this occupation.

    What farm labor contractors do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

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

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    64 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    9 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    0 / 100
    Social (S)
    37 / 100
    Enterprising (E) · strongest
    67 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    56 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    82
    Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
    80
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    77
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    77
    Documenting/Recording Information
    70
    Processing Information
    69
    Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
    69
    Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
    68
    Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
    67
    Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
    66
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Speaking
    • Active Listening
    • Coordination
    • Management of Personnel Resources
    • Critical Thinking
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Monitoring
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Time Management
    • Complex Problem Solving

    Knowledge

    • Administration and Management
    • Administrative
    • Food Production
    • Production and Processing
    • Economics and Accounting
    • Foreign Language
    • Mathematics
    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Law and Government
    • Personnel and Human Resources

    Abilities

    • Oral Expression
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Speech Clarity
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Problem Sensitivity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Control Precision
    • Far Vision
    • Information Ordering

    Work styles

    • Leadership Orientation
    • Dependability
    • Stress Tolerance
    • Attention to Detail
    • Integrity
    • Self-Control
    • Cooperation
    • Perseverance
    • Social Orientation
    • Self-Confidence

    Also called

    Farm Contractor · Farm Sanitation Employee · Field Contractor · Field Crop Harvest Contractor · Harvest Contractor · Harvesting Contractor

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What farm labor contractors may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

    Licenses by state

    4 states list a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.