Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

The Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations section of the Occupational Outlook Handbook consists of:

Union Statistics

• Union affiliation of employed wage & salary workers
• Median weekly earnings of full-time wage & salary workers

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

Employed persons: 898,000
Members of unions		Represented by unions
Number	Percent	Number	Percent
35,000	3.9%	38,000	4.3%
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source: Current Population Survey; about this section

Employed wage and salary workers paid hourly rates and those with earnings at or below the Federal minimum wage, 2004

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

source: Current Population Survey; about this section

Average hours worked per day at main job only by employed persons on weekdays and weekend days by occupation, 2004 annual averages

Occupation	Hours & percentage working by day
	Average day		Average weekday		Average Sat., Sun., and holiday
	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours
Farming, fishing, and forestry	-	-	-	-	-	-

Average hours worked per day at main job only by employed persons at workplace or home by occupation, 2004 annual averages

Occupation	Hours & percentage working at workplace or home
	At workplace		At home
	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours
Farming, fishing, and forestry	-	-	-	-

source: American Time Use Survey; about this section

Median years of tenure with current employer for employed wage and salary workers, 2004

Occupation	Employee Tenure, median (years)
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	3.7

source: Current Population Survey; about this section

2004 Fatal occupational injuries by occupation and event or exposure

Occupation	Fatalities: Event or exposure
Occupation	Total	Tran.	Viol.	Cont.	Falls	Expo.	Fires
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	281	132	16	96	11	19	6
Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers	11	7	-	-	-	-	-
Agricultural workers	143	76	13	25	9	16	4
Fishing and hunting workers	38	32	-	-	-	-	-
Forest, conservation, and logging workers	89	17	67	-	-	-	-

source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities Program; about this section

All full-time wage and salary workers	$372
— Members of unions	n.a.
— Represented by unions	n.a.
— Non-union	$369
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