Farm worker

#22Declining

4/5

Key facts

−2.4%jobs, 2025 to 2035

United States

This job is declining in the United States. Total employment is expected to fall by 5.2% in France between 2019 and 2030 (Métiers 2030) and by 2.4% in the United States by 2035 (BLS). The many hires mostly replace departures and cover seasonal work. Future-proof jobs use similar skills: see "What next?".

The job

Works in fields, orchards, vineyards or livestock farming: planting, harvesting, animal care.

18 job titles linked to this page

Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.

berry picker
crop harvester
crop picker
farm hands
fruit & vegetable picker
fruit and veg harvester
fruit and veg picker
fruit and vegetable harvester
fruit and vegetable picker
fruit and vegetable pickers
fruit picker
grape harvester
grape picker
vegetable picker
vineyard labourer
vineyard worker
winery worker
worker in a vineyard

What next?

Future-proof jobs that draw on skills close to this one. They are leads to explore, not an assessment of your profile.

Indicative matches: at launch they will come from the skills listed in official occupational directories.

Gauges

Risk 4/5 · High

AI exposureLowBLS AI exposure category "low" (2026), higher than the ILO 2025 index (very low)

Employment outlookSharp declineBLS, 2025-2035 projections (Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse)

Hiring difficultyNot availableNo US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job

PayLowBLS, 2025 median annual wage: $35,660

EntryVery quickBLS, typical education needed for entry

No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared

Sources

The BMO 2026 survey counts 82,010 planned hires of farm workers in France, 83% of them seasonal. Yet total employment in the sector is expected to fall by 5.2% between 2019 and 2030 according to the Métiers 2030 projections: hiring mostly replaces departures. Worldwide, the WEF puts farmworkers at the top of net job creation to 2030.

AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
Future of Jobs Report 2025World Economic Forum · January 2025 · large survey

Checked on 27 October 2026.