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Real wages for U.S. nonsupervisory farm and nonfarm workers, 1990–2024

  • Farm Labor
A bar and line chart shows real wages for U.S. nonsupervisory farm and nonfarm workers from 1990 to 2024. In 2024, the farm wage equaled about 60 percent of the nonfarm wage ($18.12 versus $30.13).

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According to data from the Farm Labor Survey, real (inflation-adjusted) wages for nonsupervisory crop and livestock workers (excluding contract labor) rose at an average annual rate of 1.2 percent per year between 1990 and 2024. In the past 10 years, however, real farm wages grew at 1.9 percent per year, consistent with growers' reports that workers had become harder to find.

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