Farm Labor Contractors
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
Most important skills
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Critical Thinking
- Monitoring
- Social Perceptiveness
- Judgment and Decision Making
Key knowledge
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
- Food Production
- Production and Processing
- Economics and Accounting
- Foreign Language
- Mathematics
- Customer and Personal Service
What the work involves
- Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
- Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
- Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
- Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
- Supervise the work of contracted employees.
- Furnish tools for employee use.
- Direct and transport workers to appropriate work sites.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Realistic, Conventional.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (48.5% of expert ratings)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (24%)
- On-the-job training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month (30.4%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 2: Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Farm Labor Contractors is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 93% of occupations compared | 90% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Moderate | Lower on dealing with the public than 55% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | High | Higher on teamwork than 63% of occupations compared | 58% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | High | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 69% of occupations compared | 56% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Low | Lower on time pressure than 70% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Conflict situations | High | Higher on conflict situations than 77% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Moderate | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 57% of occupations compared | 39% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Consequence of error | Moderate | Lower on consequence of error than 59% of occupations compared | 30% of surveyed respondents chose “Fairly serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: low
- Conflict situations: high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: moderate
- Consequence of error: moderate
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Occasional contact with others: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others about half the time: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Contact with others most of the time: 10.29%
- Constant contact with others: 89.71%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 16.78%
- Fairly important: 11.18%
- Important: 26.32%
- Very important: 16.22%
- Extremely important: 29.5%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Teamwork
- Not important at all: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Fairly important: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Important: 15.33%
- Very important: 26.62%
- Extremely important: 58.05%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very little freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Limited freedom: 5.15%
- Some freedom: 56.02%
- A lot of freedom: 38.84%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Time pressure
- Never: 10.29%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 8.15%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 10.99%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 53.01%
- Every day: 17.56%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Conflict situations
- Never: 10.29%
- Once a year or more but not every month: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Once a month or more but not every week: 53.02%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 26.5%
- Every day: 10.18%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 5.15%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 30.39%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 38.95%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 20.36%
- Every day: 5.15%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 16.78%
- Fairly serious: 29.62%
- Serious: 26.5%
- Very serious: 11.07%
- Extremely serious: 16.03%
n = 14, Incumbent 08/2026
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