First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
What the pay figures show
- Minnesota pays this job the most, $81,480. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Indiana wins, at $64,783. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers, Minnesota leads both nominally at $81,480 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Indiana first at $64,783. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$59,320
People doing it
27,960
Highest paid
$81,480
MN
Best off, really
$64,783
IN, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$38,990
Highest tenth
$91,770
Lowest, really
$40,710
CA
States with data
48
National average
$62,730
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
92.18%
IN, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $40,710 and $64,783. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- Only 27,960 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 48 jurisdictions, averaging $59,320 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Minnesota leads the published set.
- Interstate variation for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $40,710 to $64,783. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- National employment in first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers is 27,960. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- Coverage for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers runs to 48 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,770 |
| This salary | $59,320 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
The national median for this job
$59,320around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $38,990 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $59,320 |
| Top tenth | $91,770 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | New Mexico · $50,160 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Minnesota · $81,480 |
| Spread | $31,320 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $53,170 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $54,716 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN | $75,460 | $59,720 | $64,783 |
| MN | $81,480 | $62,134 | $63,133 |
| ID | $69,360 | $54,802 | $59,942 |
| AR | $62,790 | $50,767 | $58,685 |
| NH | $74,420 | $61,184 | $58,080 |
| MT | $64,990 | $52,088 | $57,720 |
| GA | $70,560 | $55,547 | $57,443 |
| VT | $68,630 | $54,692 | $56,596 |
| OK | $62,040 | $49,738 | $56,337 |
| MS | $60,890 | $48,762 | $55,860 |
| NE | $62,620 | $50,350 | $55,711 |
| SD | $57,880 | $48,687 | $55,266 |
| KY | $62,030 | $49,968 | $55,232 |
| WY | $59,640 | $50,101 | $55,148 |
| LA | $59,020 | $48,218 | $54,579 |
| IA | $59,150 | $48,071 | $54,154 |
| WI | $62,610 | $50,225 | $53,949 |
| AL | $60,710 | $48,345 | $53,735 |
| MO | $60,950 | $49,226 | $53,645 |
| NV | $61,180 | $51,338 | $52,937 |
| DE | $66,550 | $52,487 | $52,882 |
| AZ | $64,900 | $53,107 | $52,527 |
| ME | $64,290 | $50,817 | $52,337 |
| CO | $66,030 | $53,038 | $52,315 |
| KS | $58,670 | $46,336 | $51,505 |
| WA | $66,200 | $55,372 | $51,005 |
| NC | $58,700 | $47,512 | $50,470 |
| SC | $56,730 | $46,317 | $49,708 |
| OH | $54,940 | $45,530 | $49,590 |
| NY | $66,460 | $52,589 | $48,863 |
| PA | $58,570 | $47,443 | $48,659 |
| TN | $52,960 | $44,733 | $48,353 |
| WV | $53,190 | $43,339 | $48,277 |
| FL | $58,780 | $49,410 | $47,761 |
| MD | $62,230 | $49,590 | $47,698 |
| MI | $55,460 | $44,636 | $47,392 |
| IL | $59,030 | $46,833 | $47,376 |
| TX | $53,170 | $44,902 | $46,207 |
| CT | $59,460 | $47,436 | $45,748 |
| NM | $50,160 | $41,292 | $45,684 |
| VA | $56,990 | $45,455 | $45,117 |
| UT | $52,760 | $42,225 | $44,446 |
| MA | $59,640 | $47,439 | $43,828 |
| HI | $60,050 | $47,310 | $43,560 |
| RI | $53,770 | $43,788 | $43,178 |
| NJ | $57,240 | $46,558 | $42,759 |
| OR | $57,940 | $44,215 | $42,222 |
| CA | $56,280 | $45,832 | $40,710 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $59,320.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Minnesota, at $62,134.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits California, on $40,710.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $59,320, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Retained-pay figures for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $62,134, which leads in Minnesota.
- Real-terms results for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; California anchors the distribution at $40,710. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.