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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.

Salary for Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

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Percentile
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Percentile
Mean
U.S. $16,730
($8.05)
$19,960
($9.60)
$19,280
($9.27)
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