Occupation / job
Farm Labor Contractors
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
A $58,460 midpoint puts Farm Labor Contractors $8,440 above the $50,020 typical American job — a 17% premium paid for the training, the licence or the conditions. It is not free money and it disappears the moment you stop meeting the requirement.
310 people hold this job in the entire country. An occupation that small does not advertise: you get into Farm Labor Contractors by being known to the handful of places that employ them, which makes the network the qualification.
This work suits people who can turn a mess into a plan and then get others to follow it without having the authority to compel anyone.
No verified preparation time is on file for Farm Labor Contractors. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $35,720, a quarter over $79,590: $3,655 a month between them at a 2.2x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Farm Labor Contractors actually earn.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,720 — $14,300 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if being responsible for an outcome you cannot directly control would frustrate you.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 310 people employed as Farm Labor Contractors; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
A 2.2x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $35,720 and $79,590, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
The middle half of this field earns between $35,720 and $79,590. That is $43,870 of range, with $58,460 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $79,590. Reaching it from the $58,460 midpoint is $21,130 a year; reaching it from the $35,720 that the bottom quarter of Farm Labor Contractors earn is $43,870.
There is $22,740 between $35,720 and $58,460, and $21,130 between $58,460 and $79,590. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Farm Labor Contractors at the bottom of it.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $28.10 at the midpoint for Farm Labor Contractors, $17.17 at the 25th percentile and $38.26 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $58,460 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.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $58,460 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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