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Estimated employment710
Mean wage12.03
Entry wage9.20
10th percentile wage9.02
50th percentile wage11.04
90th percentile wage16.14
 Top Employing Industries
 IndustryEmployment % 
Trade, Transportation & Utilities34047.8%
Education & Health Services26037.3%
Manufacturing8011.9%
 Best Paying Industries
 IndustryEmploymentMedian
Wage
Trade, Transportation & Utilities34012.95
Manufacturing8012.64
Education & Health Services26010.67
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092)
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. Exclude "Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products" (45-2041). Exclude "Forest, Conservation, and Logging Workers" (45-4011 through 45-4029).
Mean Wage History
YearThis OccupationCompared to
Occupational Group
Difference
Current$12.03 $14.36  -$2.33
2014$12.02+.1%$14.35 +.1%-$2.32
2013$11.76+2.2%$14.04 +2.2%-$2.27
2012$11.58+1.5%$13.83 +1.5%-$2.24
2011$11.48+.9%$13.71 +.9%-$2.22
2010$11.32+1.5%$13.51 +1.5%-$2.19
2009$11.19+1.2%$13.35 +1.2%-$2.16
2008$11.07+1.1%$13.21 +1.1%-$2.14
2007$10.70+3.4%$12.77 +3.4%-$2.07
2006$10.29+4.0%$12.29 +4.0%-$1.99
YearThis OccupationCompared to
All Occupations
Difference
Current$12.03 $26.98  -$14.95
2014$12.02+.1%$26.76 +.8%-$14.73
2013$11.76+2.2%$26.19 +2.2%-$14.42
2012$11.58+1.5%$25.66 +2.1%-$14.07
2011$11.48+.9%$25.22 +1.7%-$13.73
2010$11.32+1.5%$24.82 +1.6%-$13.50
2009$11.19+1.2%$24.41 +1.7%-$13.21
2008$11.07+1.1%$24.08 +1.4%-$13.00
2007$10.70+3.4%$23.46 +2.6%-$12.75
2006$10.29+4.0%$22.71 +3.3%-$12.41

Note: The mid-wage is the median wage. The average wage is the mean wage. The entry-level wage is equal to the average of the lower third of reported wages for the occupation. The wage range consists of the 10th and 90th percentiles; 80% of workers earn between this wage range, 10% earn less while 10% earn more.

Reference Date: 1st Quarter 2015

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