Agricultural Technicians salary

SOC 19-4012 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$49,630

per year, nationally

Middle half

$40,950–$63,630

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

15,130

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+4.3%

2,900 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$35,980$76,480

10th: $35,980
25th: $40,950
Median: $49,630
75th: $63,630
90th: $76,480

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Associate's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where agricultural technicians earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Iowa	$64,070	87.8	—	—
2	Wyoming	$63,120	92.7	30	1.26×
3	Arizona	$62,990	100.7	—	—
4	California	$60,320	110.7	2,420	1.37×
5	Kentucky	$59,860	90.2	210	1.05×
6	Minnesota	$57,310	98.6	530	1.84×
7	New Jersey	$54,370	108.8	—	—
8	Missouri	$54,060	90.8	420	1.47×
9	Delaware	$52,510	99.8	—	—
10	North Carolina	$51,470	94.3	550	1.14×
11	Texas	$50,270	97.1	120	0.09×
12	Maryland	$49,680	105.0	200	0.74×
13	Georgia	$48,960	96.3	1,020	2.15×
14	Idaho	$48,870	95.5	650	7.81×
15	Mississippi	$48,800	87.0	190	1.67×
16	Pennsylvania	$48,800	97.6	110	0.19×
17	Washington	$48,220	107.0	470	1.36×
18	Hawaii	$47,960	110.0	150	2.39×
19	Nebraska	$47,420	90.1	580	5.85×
20	Maine	$47,410	97.0	50	0.81×
21	Kansas	$47,200	90.1	450	3.24×
22	Colorado	$47,020	103.1	100	0.34×
23	North Dakota	$46,960	89.0	100	2.43×
24	Oregon	$46,800	103.4	480	2.51×
25	Arkansas	$46,750	86.9	260	2.02×
26	Utah	$46,560	98.9	40	0.23×
27	Wisconsin	$46,470	94.1	620	2.17×
28	Illinois	$46,410	100.0	700	1.17×
29	Indiana	$46,170	93.3	410	1.31×
30	New York	$45,830	107.9	380	0.41×
31	Tennessee	$45,130	91.9	60	0.20×
32	Nevada	$43,590	100.0	40	0.26×
33	Michigan	$42,780	96.2	450	1.05×
34	Florida	$42,700	103.4	240	0.25×
35	New Hampshire	$42,520	104.2	30	0.49×
36	South Dakota	$41,420	88.6	350	7.78×
37	South Carolina	$41,290	93.7	100	0.44×
38	Virginia	$41,210	101.1	170	0.43×
39	Oklahoma	$37,840	87.8	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where agricultural technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for agricultural technicians

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$66,540	107.8	30	1.69×
2	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$65,300	91.7	—	—
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$65,280	115.6	—	—
4	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$64,790	95.0	120	5.60×
5	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$64,750	103.3	—	—
6	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$63,630	113.6	500	0.82×
7	Champaign-Urbana, IL	$63,080	92.7	70	7.11×
8	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$62,900	108.6	60	5.31×
9	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$62,680	106.7	460	4.35×
10	Iowa City, IA	$59,820	91.5	70	7.46×
11	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$58,730	108.9	140	0.45×
12	Napa, CA	$58,340	112.6	40	5.28×
13	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$54,380	100.1	350	1.25×
14	Salinas, CA	$53,510	109.0	50	2.99×
15	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$52,620	100.9	80	2.30×
16	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$52,600	104.8	210	1.08×
17	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$52,510	102.6	100	0.35×
18	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$52,310	103.6	160	0.35×
19	Fresno, CA	$52,160	102.2	150	3.17×
20	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$51,840	105.1	80	2.87×
21	Fargo, ND-MN	$51,770	90.9	70	4.92×
22	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$51,540	98.2	—	—
23	Kansas City, MO-KS	$51,380	92.5	170	1.57×
24	Manhattan, KS	$51,270	90.2	90	18.10×
25	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$50,800	93.3	30	0.78×
26	Modesto, CA	$49,730	104.1	100	5.50×
27	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$49,310	106.4	90	0.55×
28	Boise City, ID	$49,220	98.4	210	5.49×
29	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	$49,010	91.4	—	—
30	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$48,980	104.5	—	—
31	Idaho Falls, ID	$48,870	94.4	—	—
32	Ames, IA	$48,430	88.8	140	25.16×
33	Yakima, WA	$48,100	95.5	40	4.01×
34	Madison, WI	$47,030	97.3	250	6.25×
35	Urban Honolulu, HI	$46,850	111.0	90	2.08×
36	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$46,800	105.4	220	1.87×
37	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	$46,760	89.4	50	1.38×
38	Twin Falls, ID	$46,280	92.1	120	24.52×
39	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$46,170	95.7	150	1.43×
40	Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN	$44,720	93.4	50	4.70×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where agricultural technicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other$62,280
Biological Technicians$57,510
Chemical Technicians$60,390
Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health$55,090
Social Science Research Assistants$61,990
Forest and Conservation Technicians$54,560
Forensic Science Technicians$72,060
Food Science Technicians$52,130