Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Bakersfield-Delano, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 32,500.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Bakersfield earn more.
$34,620 in Bakersfield buys what $34,300 buys across the country as a whole.
Bakersfield's regional price parity is 100.9 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in California
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Bakersfield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Napa | $44,370 | $39,400 | 112.6 | +14.9% |
| San Jose | $43,690 | $39,600 | 110.4 | +15.3% |
| Santa Rosa | $43,200 | $40,100 | 107.8 | +16.8% |
| San Francisco | $43,140 | $37,300 | 115.6 | +8.7% |
| Redding | $38,910 | $38,600 | 100.7 | +12.6% |
| Vallejo | $38,350 | $35,400 | 108.5 | +3.0% |
| Los Angeles | $37,930 | $33,400 | 113.6 | −2.7% |
| Modesto | $37,850 | $36,400 | 104.1 | +5.9% |
Price parity and difference against Bakersfield are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 17.1% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Bakersfield earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 32,500 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 45-2092, Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse. Mapped to our taxonomy as farmworkers-and-laborers-crop-nursery-and-greenhouse.
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