Career Occupational Profile for: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
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; cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
Overview
| $16,540.00 | Median Annual Wage | 15,000 | Average Job Openings Per Year |
| 10.9 | Average Unemployment Percentage | 86.3 | Percentage That Completed High School |
| 603,000 | Employment Numbers in 2006 | 9.7 | Percentage That Had Some College |
| 583,000 | Employment Numbers in 2016 (est.) | 4.0 | Percentage That Went Beyond College Degree |
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Sources: Career Guide to Industries (CGI), Occupational Information Network (O*Net), Occupation Outlook Handbook (OOH)