Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

A median of $36,670 against the $50,020 all-occupation figure leaves Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals 27% behind — $13,350 across a year. Whether that is workable depends almost entirely on where you would be doing it.

32,810 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.

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 32,810 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.

A quarter of Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals earn under $31,020 and a quarter over $45,700 — 1.5x, or $14,680 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.

Under $31,020 is where a quarter of this field sits, $19,000 beneath the $50,020 a typical American job pays. The risk in Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals is not the average outcome, it is how long you might spend in the bottom quarter before leaving it.

Avoid it if seasonal income and weather-dependent work would destabilise your household budget.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 32,810 people employed as Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals; 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.

$31,020 to $45,700 is a 1.5x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.

In cash terms the middle half of Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals runs $31,020 to $45,700 — $14,680 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $36,670.

Between $31,020 and $45,700 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $36,670. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $9,030; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $14,680.

The distance from the midpoint up to $45,700 is $9,030 — well over the $5,650 down to $31,020. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $17.62 at the midpoint for Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals, $14.91 at the 25th percentile and $21.97 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.