Support Activities for Forestry

At a $22,605 median in gross receipts, the typical person under this code is running a real but part-time operation. Full-time equivalence would require roughly triple this before costs.

12,516 people filed under this code — enough that the work exists everywhere and not enough that it supports a visible trade. Most people doing Support Activities for Forestry are doing it alongside something else.

A 16.5% share — 2,065 filers — grossed $100,000 or more. That is well above what most codes here manage, and it says the middle of Support Activities for Forestry is closer to a business than to a sideline.

Support work for agriculture and forestry suits people who own a machine and a skill somebody else needs for two weeks a year, and who can stitch a calendar out of those windows.

There is no qualification, licence or minimum to appear in this data — you file and you are counted. Read the receipts distribution as the price of that: no barrier at the door means no filter before the numbers.

Bottom quarter under $7,203, top quarter over $69,158: 9.6x, or $5,162 a month. At this stretch the label has stopped describing one occupation, and every summary statistic about it — including the midpoint — should be treated with suspicion.

The bottom quarter of Support Activities for Forestry earns under $7,203 — $42,817 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.

Do not start this if you cannot survive the months between the windows when this work actually exists.

32.4% — 4,057 of the 12,516 filers in 2022 — grossed under $10,000 for the year. That is not the tail of the distribution, it is a third of it, and it is measured before any expense came out.

That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.

From $7,203 to $69,158 is 9.6x — the shape of a field where a minority captures most of the money. The midpoint of $22,605 is arithmetic, not a forecast, and treating it as one is the standard mistake here.

The middle half of this field earns between $7,203 and $69,158. That is $61,955 of range, with $22,605 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $69,158, the 75th percentile, is worth $46,553 a year more than the $22,605 midpoint and $61,955 more than the $7,203 a quarter of Support Activities for Forestry settle for.

The top quarter of Support Activities for Forestry begins $46,553 above the $22,605 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $15,402 below it. A range stretched that far in one direction is the signature of a field where a small group earns a great deal more than the middle does.

Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Support Activities for Forestry takes $10.86 in revenue — $3.46 at the bottom quarter and $33.24 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.

Straight from the Census bands for Support Activities for Forestry: 2,397 filers under $5,000, 1,661 between $5,000 and $9,999, 2,618 between $10,000 and $24,999, 2,060 above $100,000 and 604 above $250,000.