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Agricultural Equipment Operators
Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. May perform tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.
What an agricultural equipment operator does
Become an agricultural equipment operator
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good agricultural equipment operator
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $23 per hour with a typical salary of $51,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $20 and $25 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $5,400 and $45,000 per year.
- 33% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $21 per hour with a typical salary of $20,300 per year.
- 62.2% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Agricultural Equipment Operator job outlook
- There are 663 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 845 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 3% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 30% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.