Farm Labor Contractors
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
310 people do this job in the US. $58,460 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 18%
- 14%
- 68%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 13%. Today's estimate: 16%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 7 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supervise the work of contracted employees.Done daily by most who do it. | 38% | 2.5 h1.3 h to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.Done daily by most who do it. | 19% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Recruit and hire agricultural workers.Done daily by most who do it. | 14% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 10% | 1.7 h50 min to 4.2 h | 82%Half by now | |
| Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 8% | 1.3 h38 min to 3.3 h | 90%Half by now | |
| Direct and transport workers to appropriate work sites.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Furnish tools for employee use.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers16% now, 24% by 2028
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers12% now, 45% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators51% now, 57% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers28% now, 32% by 2028
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products43% now, 57% by 2028
- General and Operations Managers19% now, 43% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).