Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
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
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers pays $59,320 against $50,020 across all occupations — $775 a month more. Every premium is paid for something: find out whether it is the schooling, the licence, the hours or the risk before you decide you want it.
With 27,960 employed as First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
Supervising farm, fishing and forestry crews suits people who can plan labour around weather and a season that will not wait for the schedule to be convenient.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers. 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 below $46,670 and a quarter above $75,290: a 1.6x ratio, $28,620 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 First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers earns under $46,670, which is within $3,350 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if seasonal labour shortages would be your problem to solve at short notice, because they will be.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 27,960 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers; 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
At 1.6x between $46,670 and $75,290 this is a normally shaped occupation. $59,320 is what the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers runs $46,670 to $75,290 — $28,620 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $59,320.
Getting to $75,290, the 75th percentile, is worth $15,970 a year more than the $59,320 midpoint and $28,620 more than the $46,670 a quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers settle for.
From $59,320 it is $12,650 down to the bottom quarter and $15,970 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.43 at the bottom quarter, $28.51 at the midpoint, $36.19 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $59,320 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $59,320 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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