Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
25%
(Low Risk)
POLLING
37%
(Low Risk, Based on 321 votes)
Average: 31%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
-1.6%
by year 2033
WAGES
$83,770
or $40.27 per hour
Volume
6,150
as of 2023
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JOB SCORE
5.2/10
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- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

25% (Low Risk)

Low Risk (21-40%): Jobs in this level have a limited risk of automation, as they demand a mix of technical and human-centric skills.

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User poll

37% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 25% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Very slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers' job openings is expected to decline 1.6% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers' was $83,770, or $40 per hour

'Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers' were paid 74.3% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 6,150 people employed as 'Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 24 thousand people are employed as 'Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers'.

Job description

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

SOC Code: 11-9013.00

Comments (11)

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Patryk (Low)
05 Jul 2025 07:26
Little chances of small businessess aquiring budgets necessary to buy high-tech agricultural machines. AI is most likely going to be a helpful tool with most of the paperwork, like separating field for different crops, deciding upon and calculating the amount of fertilizer, helping to diagnose farm animals' diseases, instructing with machine fixing, and such. Until AI is implemented in autonomic farming vehicles, people will lead in this sector.
Brayden (Low)
06 Jul 2024 05:45
Farming takes real human work to do
Grant (Low)
01 Jul 2024 19:23
if you are talking about AI in tractors that is only going to go up up the hard parts of farms are say a flat tire or too much rain are some big factors that might make the robot shut off because farming is no easy job it is only few jobs that you start at age 5 and never quit unless of health or you die so still health.
Jo (No chance)
16 Jun 2023 02:14
Because it’s hard work and u need human skills to do it and if the robots break the farmers fix everything.
Antti Viitanen (Moderate)
15 Dec 2022 07:24
Most of the manual work of farmers will be done with stand-alone robots, drones, or machines. The role of a farmer will change to someone who manages all the work that robots do.

From vertical farming centers, we can see how farming is already changing on a large scale.
Anonymous
22 Apr 2022 08:48
I believe that eventually, robots will take over farming and agricultural jobs. This is already happening in Japan, where they have successfully implemented robot farming. As a result, the number of human farmers will decrease significantly, with only one farmer remaining for every 100 robots.
bill (No chance)
18 May 2021 14:59
old school family farms aren't going to drop all there help just because a machine can do it
Alonso (No chance)
23 Feb 2021 22:17
Farmers are susceptible to the new hydrophobic farms
Anonymous
12 Dec 2020 16:11
I think that the farmers and agricultural jobs will be done by robots only because nowadays in Japan they are practicing successfully the robot farming which means that farmers jobs would be vanished and out of 100 only 1 farmer will remain
AA
25 Feb 2020 19:12
farmers will be replaced by AI because AI can glow plants.
Gary Binzo
01 Sep 2023 00:19
Wow AI can grow plants but farmers can treat animals 10x better than a robot ever could. You forget that just because an AI can do one thing a farmer can do tenfold.
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