Real wages for U.S. nonsupervisory farm and nonfarm workers, 1990–2023
- by Marcelo Castillo
- 11/21/2024
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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 1.1 percent per year between 1990 and 2023. In the past 5 years, however, real farm wages grew at 2.1 percent per year, consistent with growers' reports that workers were harder than usual to find.