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Farm Labor Contractors earn $58,460 a year at the midpoint

A small field — roughly 310 people nationwide — with a midpoint of $58,460. Pay runs from about $30,930 at the low end to $84,050 at the top, per the 2025 federal survey.

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$58,460median a year · United States
$28.11an hour $58,470average 310people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$35,72025th $58,460median $79,59075th
$30,93010th percentile $84,05090th percentile
$35,720a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$85,710best-paying state · California
$50,730lowest-paying state · Minnesota
+47%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

Farm labor contractor earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Number 424 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 46% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 422 Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas $58,620
  2. 423 Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators $58,470
  3. 424 Farm Labor Contractors $58,460
  4. 425 Massage therapists $58,450
  5. 426 First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers $58,430

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Related work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Farm Labor Contractors$58,460
Project Management Specialists$102,320+$43,860 Management Analysts$101,860+$43,400 Business Operations Specialists, All Other$83,050+$24,590 Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes$82,890+$24,430 Logisticians$82,320+$23,860 Compliance Officers$80,730+$22,270

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  • Paid wages of contracted farm laborers.
  • Provided food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
  • Recruited and hired agricultural workers.

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Farm labor contractor pay rate, from hourly to yearly

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$58,469a year

Questions people ask most

What is a farm labor contractor’s yearly income?

A farm labor contractor makes a median of $58,460 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $35,720 and $79,590.

What is a farm labor contractor’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $28.11 an hour; the average is $58,470 a year.

What is the starting pay for a farm labor contractor?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $35,720 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $30,930.

Which state pays farm labor contractors the most?

California, with a median of $85,710 a year.

How many people work as farm labor contractors?

About 310 in the United States — number 424 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays roughly the same

Median pay within $160 of what farm labor contractors earn — $58,460 a year — but not always the same spread.

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