Career Explorer Education
Changing shape
Farm and home management educators
Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.
Changing faster than most: more resilient than 23% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by -3.2% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on creative vision and emotional intelligence.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $60,220
- Job growth to 2035
- -3.2%
- Openings a year
- 800
- People doing it (2025)
- 9,700
- Usual route in
- Master's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise others on educational or vocational matters
- Communicate with others about operational plans or activities
- Gather information from physical or electronic sources
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Maintain operational records
- Schedule operational activities
- Collaborate in the development of educational programs
What the work looks like
- Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.
- Conduct classes or deliver lectures on subjects such as nutrition, home management, and farming techniques.
- Collaborate with producers to diagnose and prevent management and production problems.
- Research information requested by farmers.
- Collect and evaluate data to determine community program needs.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as continued industry consolidation in agriculture reduces the number of farmers, and by extension the needed number of farm and home management advisors.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Agricultural sciences teachers, postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 29, +2.9%
- Physics teachers, postsecondaryChanging shape, Index 27, +2.4%
- Special education teachers, preschoolChanging shape, Index 45, +2.4%
- Educational instruction and library workers, all otherChanging shape, Index 26, +1.8%
Also known as: 4-H Youth Development Specialist, Extension Agent, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educator, 4-H Youth Educator, Agricultural Extension Educator, Community Educator.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.