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| SUMMARY |
High Risk
62%
|
JOB SCORE  |
 2.7/10
|
| CALCULATED |
61%
(High Risk)
|
| POLLING |
64%
(High Risk)
|
|
GROWTH
by year 2032
|
2.3%
|
| WAGES |
$34,470
or $16.57 per hour
|
|
VOLUME
as of 2023
|
258,730
|
| SNOWFLAKE |
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| DECRIPTION | 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. |