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Abstract
In 1983, about 2.6 million people 14 years of age and older did farmwork for wages and salary. The work force was 73-percent white, 13-percent Hispanic, and 14-percent black and other races. Fifty percent of all hired farmworkers were under 25 years old, and 78 percent were male. At the time of the survey, 38 percent of the farmworkers resided in the South, 28 percent in the West, 26 percent in the Midwest, and 7 percent in the Northeast. The average annual earnings in 1983 were $4,815 of which $3,138 came from farmwork. Migrants accounted for 9 percent of all hired farmworkers. The number of farmworkers has not changed much over the last 10 years.