8 Lowest Paying Blue Collar Jobs in America

6. Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Average salary: 20,820$

Although America is among top agriculture producing countries, with export estimated at 110 billion of dollars, farm workers annual salary is little less than 21,000$. Working on a farm is not only physically demanding but also extremely stressful. CBS list of professions with highest suicidal rates puts farming, fishing, and forestry at sixth place with 5.1 workplace suicides per 1,000,000 workers. Factors that increase suicide rate among farmers are “financial loss; physical stress and illness due to the taxing nature of the work; social isolation; difficult work-home balance; limited access to mental health services; and depression caused by chronic pesticide exposure”.

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