Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092)

Occupation description:  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. Excludes Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products (45-2041) and Forest, Conservation, and Logging Workers (45-4011 through 45-4029).

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2019 Wages

Labor Force Indicators

2016 Worker Characteristics
Total workers	Nonresident workers	Percent nonresident	Percent age 45 plus	Percent age 50 plus
537	127	23.6	25.3	21.8

2016 Potential Supply
Qualified but working in another occupation	112
Currently employed in a lower paid occupation	0
UI claimants previously working in occupation	34

2016 ALEXsys Employment Data
Number of registrants	459
Number of job position postings	54
Ratio of registrants to job position postings	8.5

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