Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,517
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$5,653
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,545
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$35,170
Kept after tax
$29,517
Worth in national money
$30,545
State rank
29
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Vermont is 29 of 50 states for this job, with a middle wage of $35,170. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Vermont this is lower-paid work. Of 453 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 448. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Here is where Vermont does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $35,170 you keep $29,517, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $30,545 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $39,400, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Vermont ranks 29 of 50 for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse at $35,170. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Vermont reports, farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse ranks 448 of 453, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- After federal, FICA and Vermont income tax, retained pay for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse on $35,170 is $29,517. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $30,545 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $39,400 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,840 |
| This salary | $35,170 |
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 Vermont | $29,517 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,439 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$779 |
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 | $34,023 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$942 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Vermont earn less than $35,170. The published range is $33,770 up to $47,840, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $29,517 take-home in Vermont comes from $35,170. 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 448 of 453.
- Two cautions on $30,545, the adjusted value of that $35,170 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 448 of 453 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse in Vermont the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,770 to $47,840. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $29,517, from $35,170, assumes a single Vermont 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 448 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 29 of 50 for it.
- This $30,545 adjusted figure, worked from $35,170, 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 448 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 448 of 453 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 $39,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,770 at the tenth percentile, $47,840 at the ninetieth.
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 $30,545.
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 Vermont adds its own income tax on top — which is why $29,517 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Vermont is $39,400. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,770 to $47,840) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $30,545 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 $29,517 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.