Program Codes
Employment Percentage
-9.937888199
SOC ID
45-2091
SOC Title
Agricultural Equipment Operators
ONET ID
45-2091.00
ONET Concat ID
45209100
Median Salary
32193.36
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
75.910004
Ed Level Certificate
14.41
Ed Level Some College
9.53
Ed Level Associates
0.14
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. May perform tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.
Core Tasks
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
- Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
- Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
- Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Start Annual Earnings
24128.36
Top Annual Earnings
49276.55
EMSI Career Title Slug
agricultural-equipment-operator