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Farm Labor Contractors
Business and Financial Operations · SOC 13-1074
0.0% AI Exposure — Low
$58,460
Median Annual Salary
Bright ↗
O*NET Outlook
200
Proj. Annual Openings
310
Employment (OEWS 2025)
+11.7%/yr
Empl. growth (2019–2025)
100/100
AI Resiliency Score
AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.
Decision card
Career Evidence Passport
SOC 13-1074 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.
Proxy / seed data labeledDescriptive-only
- SOC exposure
- 0.0%
- Low · Anthropic AEI
- Automation friction
- 34/100
- Low friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
- Wages
- $58,460
- No H-1B offered-wage row for this SOC.
- Projected openings
- 200
- BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +6.0%.
- Observed/proxy demand
- —
- FY— certified LCAs; 232 postings in 2025.
Skill evidence
SpeakingActive ListeningManagement of Personnel ResourcesTime ManagementCritical Thinking
Transition context
- H-1B values are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals.
- Job postings are seed-static / seed-derived; treat as provider-ready proxy coverage until observed provider data is wired in.
- Transition matches are directional skill-overlap context, not placement guarantees.
- This release is a FutureGrid broad-SOC seed derived from public BLS ORS requirement concepts and categories, not direct occupation-level ORS survey estimates. It describes job requirements, not worker ability, AI capability, or displacement probability. Automation friction is a FutureGrid derived score and should be read alongside exposure, demand, wage, and projection signals.
AI Exposure Analysis
AI Exposure0.0%
AI Resiliency100/100
Exposure BandLow
Sector Avg. Exposure29.0%
Across AI measures
Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.
22.5%
Consensus
Actual adoption · Anthropic0%
AI capability · OpenAI14.3%
AI ability · AIOE53.2%
Automation baseline (2013) · Frey & Osborne97%
Top Skills
1.Speaking
2.Active Listening
3.Management of Personnel Resources
4.Time Management
5.Critical Thinking
H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand
View full H-1B trends →No H-1B certified LCA filings recorded for this occupation in FY2016–FY2025.
O*NET occupation profile
What this work involves
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
Common titles: Farm Labor Contractor, Field Manager, Field Supervisor
Representative Tasks
- •Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
- •Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
- •Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
- •Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
- •Supervise the work of contracted employees.
Detailed Work Activities
- •Allocate physical resources within organizations.
- •Pay charges, fees, or taxes.
- •Administer personnel recruitment or hiring activities.
- •Coordinate personnel recruitment activities.
- •Supervise employees.
Tools & Technologies
Intuit QuickBooks · hotMicrosoft Access · hotMicrosoft Excel · hotMicrosoft Outlook · hotMicrosoft SharePoint · hotBookkeeping softwareE-VerifyFinancial accounting software
Related Occupations
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry WorkersFarmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers · BrightFirst-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle OperatorsFirst-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersBuyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products · Bright
Employment Projections & AI Exposure
15
Occupations Shown
26.0%
Avg AI Exposure
9
Bright Outlook
Horizontal bar chart showing occupations with the highest projected annual openings. Each bar length represents annual projected openings. Color uses a gradient from violet (lower) to cyan (higher). Summary statistics are shown above the chart.
Employment & Wage Trend
BLS OEWS, 2019–2025
Multi-year BLS OEWS history for SOC 13-1074: 2019 — employment: 160, median wage: $61,910; 2020 — employment: N/A, median wage: $47,780; 2021 — employment: 440, median wage: $47,770; 2022 — employment: 550, median wage: $49,330; 2023 — employment: 460, median wage: $45,730; 2025 — employment: 310, median wage: $58,460.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.
Sector Comparison
| Metric | This Career | Sector Average |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exposure | 0.0% | 29.0% |
| Outlook | Bright ↗ | 48% Bright |
| Median Salary | $58,460 | N/A |
| AI Resiliency | 100/100 | N/A |