DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

45-2092 Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Occupational 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. Excludes ?Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation? (37-3012), ?Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products? (45-2041), and ?Forest, Conservation, and Logging Workers? (45-4011 through 45-4029).

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020
 Percentiles
GeographyEmploymentEmp SE*MeanMean SE*10th25thMedian75th90th
EDR 7W- Central 309$15.93/hr$1.16/hr$10.86/hr$12.90/hr$14.65/hr$18.78/hr$23.33/hr
Minnesota 940248$16.72/hr$0.55/hr$10.62/hr$12.16/hr$16.44/hr$19.95/hr$24.45/hr
U S 295,5205,910$13.56/hr$0.08/hr$11.22/hr$11.67/hr$12.41/hr$14.53/hr$18.01/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.


Other Regional Data For Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Geography (click title for details)OESProjections
EmploymentMedian Wage% Change  - 
EDR 11 - 7 County Twin Cities 210 $14.63/hr N/A
EDR 10 - Southeast 80 $14.79/hr N/A
EDR 9 - South Central 50 $13.74/hr N/A
EDR 7W- Central 30 $14.65/hr N/A
EDR 4 - West Central 30 $14.04/hr N/A
EDR 6E- Southwest Central 10 $17.40/hr N/A
EDR 5 - North Central N/A N/A N/A
EDR 7E- East Central N/A N/A N/A
EDR 8 - Southwest N/A $17.95/hr N/A
EDR 3 - Arrowhead N/A $10.08/hr N/A
EDR 1 - Northwest N/A N/A N/A
EDR 2 - Headwaters N/A N/A N/A
EDR 6W- Upper Minnesota Valley N/A N/A N/A
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OESProjections
EmploymentMedian Wage% Change  - 
Packers and Packagers, Hand1,340$12.08/hrN/A
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers800$14.55/hrN/A
Agricultural Equipment OperatorsN/AN/AN/A
First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry WorkersN/AN/AN/A
Agricultural InspectorsN/AN/AN/A
Farmworkers, Farm and Ranch AnimalsN/AN/AN/A
Tasks for Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse