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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; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.
What a farmworkers and laborer, crop, nursery, and greenhouse does
Become a farmworkers and laborer, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good farmworkers and laborer, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
- Talking to others.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $21 per hour with a typical salary of $35,000 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $18 and $23 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $3,200 and $24,500 per year.
- 25% 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 $22,700 per year.
- 68% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Farmworkers And Laborer, Crop, Nursery, And Greenhouse job outlook
- There are 8,555 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 11,365 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 33% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 31% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.