Samantha Ayoub
American Farm Bureau Federation
The U.S. Department of Labor’s 2023 reclassification of some H-2A-worker job titles continues to increase wages. Another increase is on the way that year per the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2024 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, which was released in April.
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