Cash Wages and Perquisites Received by Regular Hired Farmworkers, 1966
Author: Grise, Verner N
Date Published: 1970
Report on the wages of regular hired farmworkers who were provided perquisites were 46% higher than those of workers paid cash daily. Workers provided perquisites received a wage-equivalent of $3,571,while those paid in cash got only $2,450. Workers on tobacco and cotton farms received the lowest wages and those on vegetable, fruit, and nut, livestock, and general farms the highest. Workers on farms with sales of $100,000 or more were paid more than twice as much as those on farms with less than $20,000 in sales. The lowest annual wage equivalent was paid in the South and in the Lake States; the highest was paid in the West. About half the regular hired workers studied were furnished a house with an average annual value $572. Workers furnished any other perquisites, which might include items such as an automobile or garden plot, received the highest non-cash wages, $2,167; those furnished meals only received the lowest, $401. Data in this study were obtained in the 1966 Pesticide and General Farm Survey based on 1966 farm operations.
Date Published: 1970
Report on the wages of regular hired farmworkers who were provided perquisites were 46% higher than those of workers paid cash daily. Workers provided perquisites received a wage-equivalent of $3,571,while those paid in cash got only $2,450. Workers on tobacco and cotton farms received the lowest wages and those on vegetable, fruit, and nut, livestock, and general farms the highest. Workers on farms with sales of $100,000 or more were paid more than twice as much as those on farms with less than $20,000 in sales. The lowest annual wage equivalent was paid in the South and in the Lake States; the highest was paid in the West. About half the regular hired workers studied were furnished a house with an average annual value $572. Workers furnished any other perquisites, which might include items such as an automobile or garden plot, received the highest non-cash wages, $2,167; those furnished meals only received the lowest, $401. Data in this study were obtained in the 1966 Pesticide and General Farm Survey based on 1966 farm operations.
