Career Explorer Business and finance
Human edge, growing
Farm labor contractors
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
Among the most resilient careers: more resilient than 82% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is low (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it low), and US jobs are projected to change by +7.4% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on emotional intelligence.
AI struggles with much of this work, and US employers are expected to hire more people into it than average.
- Median pay (2025)
- $58,460
- Job growth to 2035
- +7.4%
- Openings a year
- 100
- People doing it (2025)
- 1,900
- Usual route in
- No formal credential, then short on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Execute financial transactions
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Distribute materials, supplies, or resources
- Supervise personnel activities
- Manage human resources activities
What the work looks like
- Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
- Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
- Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
- Supervise the work of contracted employees.
- Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Shuttle drivers and chauffeursHuman edge, growing, Index 87, +7.1%
- Physical therapist aidesHuman edge, growing, Index 87, +4.0%
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- Highway maintenance workersHuman edge, steady, Index 84, +3.4%
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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.