Occupation / job
Agricultural Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Agricultural Workers, All Other pays $39,850 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $10,170 a year short, or $4.88 an hour. That is a liveable wage in a cheap state and a difficult one in an expensive city, and nothing about the national figure tells you which you would be in.
Employment as Agricultural Workers, All Other stands at 3,620. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.
Agricultural work suits people who accept weather, season and commodity prices as the terms of employment rather than as bad luck.
How long it takes to become one of the 3,620 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $33,140 and a quarter above $53,290: a 1.6x ratio, $20,150 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
The bottom quarter of Agricultural Workers, All Other earns under $33,140 — $16,880 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $15.93 an hour. A floor that low means the occupation cannot be judged on its median alone; a quarter of the people in it are somewhere else entirely.
Avoid it if seasonal income and weather-dependent work would destabilise your household budget.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 3,620 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
1.6x between $33,140 and $53,290 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $39,850 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.
In cash terms the middle half of Agricultural Workers, All Other runs $33,140 to $53,290 — $20,150 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $39,850.
Between $33,140 and $53,290 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $39,850. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $13,440; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $20,150.
The upper half of the middle range — $39,850 to $53,290, or $13,440 — is far longer than the lower half at $6,710. In a shape like this an average would flatter Agricultural Workers, All Other considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $19.15 at the midpoint for Agricultural Workers, All Other, $15.93 at the 25th percentile and $25.62 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $39,850 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Agricultural Workers, All Other, the hourly figure is $39,850 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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