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Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse - 45-2092.00 |
Summary Occupational
Forecast Data |
| Annual
Average Employment |
Employment
Change |
Average
Annual Job Openings |
Wage
and Training Levels |
| 2013 |
2018 |
Numerical |
Percent |
New
Jobs |
Replacement
Jobs |
Total |
Median
Hourly |
Median
Annual |
Education & Training
Level |
7716 |
7689 |
-27 |
0% |
-5 |
235 |
230 |
$9.01 |
$18,739 |
Short-term on-the-job training |
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Staffing
Pattern Data
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Forecast Data Source: EMSI (1st Quarter 2013) |
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| 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; cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. |
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Occupation Details
The information in this section represents occupational characteristics
included in O*NET which defines key features of an occupation as
a standardized, measurable set of variables called "descriptors".
These distinguishing characteristics of an occupation are described
in greater detail in the O*NET
Content Model. All items are listed in descending order
of importance.
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| See secondary occupations
for occupational details. |
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