Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals in Ohio

A crate of vegetables, gloves and a trowel beside cultivated farm rows.

May 2025 wages · tax year 2026

You keep

$27,108

after federal, FICA and Ohio tax

Tax takes

$4,092

13.1% of the whole

Worth, in national money

$29,525

Ohio costs less than average

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

$31,200

Kept after tax

$27,108

Worth in national money

$29,525

State rank

47

of 49 states

What this pays, and what it is worth

  • Pay for this job is on the low side in Ohio. The middle earner gets $31,200. That is 47 of 49 states, and about 14.92% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
  • Against 494 occupations Ohio publishes, this job lands at 471. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
  • Ohio is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $31,200 the take-home is $27,108; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $29,525 would nationally. The average comes to $34,530, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
  • For farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals, Ohio sits in the lower band at $31,200, ranking 47 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 14.92%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
  • Within Ohio, this work ranks 471 of 494 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
  • Post-tax income for farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals in Ohio, on $31,200, is $27,108 — equivalent to $29,525 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $34,530 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.

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Pay band: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

The state median for this job

50thpercentile, roughly
Lowest tenth earn under$24,410
Half earn under$31,200
Top tenth earn over$51,270
This salary$31,200

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

Compare with
+$142take-home per year in Texas
Take-home in Ohio$27,108
Take-home in Texas$27,249
Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity−$1,484

The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.

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

Moving to
$0$32,994
$32,994in Texas, for the same life
To match take-home only$31,024
Raise you would need+$1,794
Prices in Texas97 vs 92

State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.

Sources and assumptions
  • Treat $31,200 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $24,410 and the ninetieth is $51,270 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
  • That $27,108 take-home in Ohio comes from $31,200. 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 471 of 494.
  • Two cautions on $29,525, the adjusted value of that $31,200 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 471 of 494 locally.
  • The Ohio median of $31,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $24,410 to $51,270. 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 $27,108, from $31,200, assumes a single Ohio 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 471 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 49 for it.
  • This $29,525 adjusted figure, worked from $31,200, 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 471 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 471 of 494 locally.

Questions people ask

Is this the average pay for the job?

It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $34,530, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.

Why is the pay range for this job so wide?

One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $24,410, the highest tenth $51,270, 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 $29,525.

Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?

Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Ohio then takes its own share, leaving $27,108.

Why is this job missing from some states?

A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.

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 Ohio is $34,530. 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 ($24,410) and the ninetieth ($51,270) 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?

Ohio'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 $29,525 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 $27,108 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.