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Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals earn $36,670 a year at the midpoint

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The lowest tenth are paid about $27,360, the highest tenth about $54,080 — figures from the 2025 federal wage survey.

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$36,670median a year · United States
$17.63an hour $39,260average 32,810people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$31,02025th $36,670median $45,70075th
$27,36010th percentile $54,08090th percentile
$31,020a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$50,450best-paying state · Alaska
$28,410lowest-paying state · Georgia
+38%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.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $50,450 in Alaska and $28,410 in Georgia — a gap of $22,040 a year.

Farm and ranch animal farmworker earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Place 742 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 6% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 740 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $36,840
  2. 741 Teaching assistants $36,780
  3. 742 Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals $36,670
  4. 743 Sewing Machine Operators $36,670
  5. 744 Recreation Workers $36,560

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  • Fed and watered livestock and monitor food and water supplies.
  • Herded livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks, or other enclosures.
  • Examined animals to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain.

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Farm and ranch animal farmworker wages, state by state

The 36 states where the most people do this work, of 49 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.62 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Minnesota $46,020 $23,150 $23,150 — $79,990 580
Washington $45,370 $35,590 $35,590 — $64,430 1,100
Maryland $41,760 $31,200 $31,200 — $64,340 310
Idaho $40,580 $24,670 $24,670 — $52,960 480
Colorado $39,740 $32,120 $32,120 — $57,160 1,270
New Jersey $38,960 $34,320 $34,320 — $54,810 250
Wyoming $38,920 $22,560 $22,560 — $47,760 470
North Carolina $38,750 $29,050 $29,050 — $54,960 910
Virginia $38,670 $29,530 $29,530 — $62,010 630
California $38,640 $34,780 $34,780 — $55,310 3,600
Massachusetts $38,280 $35,000 $35,000 — $56,260 270
Kentucky $38,030 $24,820 $24,820 — $54,760 700
Indiana $37,530 $27,520 $27,520 — $45,380 420
Mississippi $37,430 $20,800 $20,800 — $84,390 290
Nebraska $37,220 $37,210 $37,210 — $48,040 570
Kansas $37,060 $29,130 $29,130 — $47,590 1,340
Montana $37,010 $30,620 $30,620 — $55,930 660
Florida $36,790 $29,730 $29,730 — $52,540 820
Alabama $36,620 $22,190 $22,190 — $53,040 1,300
Iowa $36,480 $28,950 $28,950 — $50,540 1,240
New Mexico $36,400 $24,960 $24,960 — $49,990 330
Oregon $35,480 $32,410 $32,410 — $45,060 700
Pennsylvania $35,360 $21,700 $21,700 — $47,900 1,330
Arizona $35,160 $31,210 $31,210 — $48,100 650
New York $34,860 $32,240 $32,240 — $50,770 530
Texas $33,920 $24,110 $24,110 — $50,480 3,750
Illinois $33,840 $31,200 $31,200 — $49,240 450
Tennessee $33,720 $26,550 $26,550 — $47,560 450
Oklahoma $33,670 $20,560 $20,560 — $57,980 420
Wisconsin $32,970 $23,320 $23,320 — $50,550 930
Missouri $32,950 $28,600 $28,600 — $57,410 1,310
Michigan $32,660 $27,440 $27,440 — $50,470 750
Nevada $31,700 $28,530 $28,530 — $47,040 210
Ohio $31,200 $24,410 $24,410 — $51,270 1,160
Arkansas $29,340 $23,700 $23,700 — $50,640 460
Georgia $28,410 $21,880 $21,880 — $59,890 690

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Farm and ranch animal farmworker pay rate, hourly to annual

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$36,670a year

Questions people ask

What is a farm and ranch animal farmworker’s yearly income?

A farm and ranch animal farmworker makes a median of $36,670 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $31,020 and $45,700.

What is a farm and ranch animal farmworker’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $17.63 an hour; the average is $39,260 a year.

What is the starting pay for a farm and ranch animal farmworker?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $31,020 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $27,360.

Which state pays farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals the most?

Alaska, with a median of $50,450 a year.

How many people work as farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals?

About 32,810 in the United States — number 742 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $110 of what farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals earn — $36,670 a year — but not always the same spread.

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