Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
SOC Code: 45-2092
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouses record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 96.6/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Speaking, Operations Monitoring, Speaking.
AI-Proof Score: 96.6 — Very High
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Median Salary
$35,690
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Job Growth
-3.3%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Speaking
- •Operations Monitoring
- •Active Listening
- •Time Management
- •Repairing
- •Operation and Control
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Monitoring
- •Critical Thinking
Common Tasks
- ✓Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
- ✓Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
- ✓Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
- ✓Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
- ✓Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation