Farm Labor

This annual release contains regional and national data for self-employed, unpaid, and hired workers and wage rates for selected weeks; also included in the report are the hired worker numbers and wage rates for selected states and changes in farm workers per region. The data is published in wage rates by type of worker and number of workers and hours worked by region and U.S., as well as wage rates and hired workers by economic class of farm or type of farm. Finally, there is also data presented in hired workers and wages by the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Data for the report comes from the NASS Farm Labor Survey, which targets farms and ranches with $1,000 or more in agricultural sales or potential sales.