Skilled Trades
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
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.
Median salary
$35,690
Typical range
$32k – $46k
Job outlook
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Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Entry / Junior
$32,260
~2 yrs to advance
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Established
$35,690
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Senior
$41,030
Key skills
A typical day
- •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.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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