Will AI replace Farm Labor Contractors?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
0/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 2% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 0% of the work
What the job involves
Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Out of reach(7)
- Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
- Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
- Supervise the work of contracted employees.
- Furnish tools for employee use.
- Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
and 2 more
Also called
Harvesting Contractor · Farm Contractor · Field Crop Harvest Contractor · Farm Sanitation Employee · Field Contractor · Harvest Contractor
Related jobs
- First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators31/100
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products23/100
- Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers25/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers14/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers24/100
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics