Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,781
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$6,229
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,571
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$37,010
Kept after tax
$30,781
Worth in national money
$31,571
State rank
19
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pennsylvania sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $37,010, ranking 19 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Measured against other jobs in Pennsylvania, this one sits low: 436 of 492 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $37,010, tax leaves $30,781, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $31,571 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $38,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- Pennsylvania occupies the middle band for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse: a median of $37,010, ranking 19 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse occupies position 436 of 492 in Pennsylvania's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse — median $37,010 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $30,781 retained, $31,571 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $38,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,010 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,680 |
| This salary | $37,010 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Pennsylvania | $30,781 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,918 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,275 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $35,596 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,542 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,010 as a midpoint for Pennsylvania, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $24,960 and the ninetieth is $51,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $30,781 take-home in Pennsylvania comes from $37,010. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 436 of 492.
- Two cautions on $31,571, the adjusted value of that $37,010 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Pennsylvania. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 436 of 492 locally.
- The Pennsylvania median of $37,010 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $24,960 to $51,680. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $30,781, from $37,010, assumes a single Pennsylvania filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 436 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 50 for it.
- This $31,571 adjusted figure, worked from $37,010, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 436 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 436 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $38,330 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $24,960, the highest tenth $51,680, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $31,571.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Pennsylvania adds its own income tax on top — which is why $30,781 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Pennsylvania is $38,330. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($24,960) and the ninetieth ($51,680) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Pennsylvania's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $31,571 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $30,781 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.