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Farm Labor Contractors vs Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Farm Labor Contractors and Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Farm Labor Contractors Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$48,690
$87,980
Employment · BLS OEWS
410
5,910
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
7th pct
21st pct

At a glance

Dimension Farm Labor Contractors Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
Median pay $48,690 $87,980
Employment 410 5,910
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+6.0%) Declining (-1.3%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 300 85,500
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Low · 7th pct Low · 21st pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 75th pct · 39% of tasks 44th pct · 24% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — —
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman Yes No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Oral Comprehension, Speaking, Oral Expression, Food Production, Mathematics, Personnel and Human Resources, Active Listening, Speech Clarity, Management of Personnel Resources, Production and Processing, Speech Recognition, Time Management, Problem Sensitivity, Critical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Judgment and Decision Making, Near Vision, Written Comprehension, Written Expression, Deductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Administration and Management, English Language, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Monitoring, Complex Problem Solving, Inductive Reasoning, Economics and Accounting, Mechanical.

Specific to Farm Labor Contractors

  • Foreign Language
  • Law and Government
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Control Precision
  • Multilimb Coordination
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Negotiation
  • Selective Attention

Specific to Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

  • Biology
  • Category Flexibility
  • Active Learning
  • Fluency of Ideas
  • Perceptual Speed
  • Far Vision
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Originality

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Web page creation and editing software , Accounting software , Data base user interface and query software , Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Electronic mail software , Word processing software , Enterprise resource planning ERP software .

Specific to Farm Labor Contractors

Specific to Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Farm Labor Contractors or Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Farm Labor Contractors vs Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/farm-labor-contractors-vs-farmers-ranchers-and-other-agricultural-managers

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Singulariki. (2026). Farm Labor Contractors vs Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/farm-labor-contractors-vs-farmers-ranchers-and-other-agricultural-managers

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