Field
Farming & outdoors
What is this page & how do I use it?
This is a sector view — every farming & outdoors career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.
How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.
Careers
11
Median score
30
Avg growth
-1.2%
Wide moats
1/11
Every farming & outdoors career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $47k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)
| Career | Rating | Moat | Growth | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural equipment operators | ★4.0 · 51 | 🏰 Wide | +7.7% | $43k |
| First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers | ★3.5 · 43 | 🛡 Narrow | +2.5% | $59k |
| Animal breeders | ★3.0 · 41 | 🛡 Narrow | +2.4% | $52k |
| Agricultural inspectors | ★3.0 · 37 | 🛡 Narrow | +1.5% | $51k |
| Logging equipment operators | ★2.5 · 32 | 🛡 Narrow | -1.4% | $49k |
| Fallers | ★2.5 · 30 | 🛡 Narrow | -7.3% | $54k |
| Log graders and scalers | ★2.5 · 30 | — | -0.7% | $47k |
| Forest and conservation workers | ★2.0 · 26 | 🛡 Narrow | -4.7% | $44k |
| Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse | ★1.5 · 22 | 🛡 Narrow | -3.3% | $36k |
| Farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals | ★1.5 · 21 | 🛡 Narrow | -5% | $36k |
| Graders and sorters, agricultural products | ★1.5 · 21 | 🛡 Narrow | -5.4% | $35k |