Real wages for U.S. nonsupervisory farm and nonfarm workers, 1990–2024
- by Marcelo Castillo
- 9/12/2025
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.