Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Description

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

National Wages and Employment Info

Median Wages (2008):
$8.98 hourly, $18,670 annual.
Employment (2008):
253,670 employees