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SVcummins

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• Mar 24, 2019

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Terribly wrong ! According to this I should be making
over 30$ an hour . No wonder citiots think farmers
and ranchers are rich .

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grizz02

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• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

I get 50.00 an hour for plowing snow , 100.00 for back hoe work

 

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retired farmer

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Wonder who made up those figures. I never made anywhere near the low end of the figures even when I had a full time job.

 

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oldsarge

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

That's probably based on a 40 hr week.I remember the 80 to 100 hrs that most work!!!!!

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Location

Virginia

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Well when they average things someone has to be on the bottom.(LOL)

 

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john in la

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Location

What part of in La do you not understand

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Be glad you make what you do make.

You could have been born in the south and grew up in a sharecrop family.
Then you might have room to complain.

 

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old-9

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• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Is that after repairs, fuel,insurance,tires,and buying the truck and back hoe?

 

Crazy Horse

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• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Grizz ..... that's with your own equipment right? Not really "your" hourly wage. Big difference.

 

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Cliff Nelson

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

That math works out to 40 hours per week. Not many farmers that only work that. There's just too many variables to even come up with accurate data to get an average. Some will have yearly income in that range but the hourly rate will be less. Also depends on what type of farming/ranching they are involved in.

 

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paul

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• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

According to the BLS? I think they need to leave the L out of their name!

Paul

 

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CenTex Farmall

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Oh no! The secret is out!

Now everyone will run out and start farming.

 

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SVcummins

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Paul I?ll second that . 35$ an hour ? If a guy could make an average of 4$ an hour he could retire at 45 with 2 million dollars in the bank

 

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fixerupper

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

This report is probably using federal income tax figures. Very deceptive.

 

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SVcummins

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

Old 9 . I tmake about 50% after all the bills are paid insurance tires parts fuel grade bolts and nuts and whatever else comes up . Doing custom work is a whole lot different than putting a crop in the ground and trying to make money from it .

 

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grizz02

Well-known Member

• Mar 24, 2019

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yes my equipment, fuel , I'm sure in the Midwest prices are different

 

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JMOR

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Location

TX

• Mar 24, 2019

• #1

(quoted from post at 23:38:10 03/24/19) yes my equipment, fuel , I'm sure in the Midwest prices are different

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he trouble with surveys, statistics, polls, etc., is that you figure out what you want the result to be, then the methods can be tailored to yield that result. Sorry to burst your balloon.

 

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DeltaRed

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• Mar 24, 2019

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?.They said I made 80'000 last year. Yea, but it cost 79,000 to do that.so I worked all year for 1000.

 

MarkB_MI

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Location

Motown USA

• Mar 25, 2019

• #1

That "wage" is calculated based on a 40 hour week.

It is unclear if the "wage" is limited to earned income, or includes such things as farm subsidies, rent and capital gains. And it may not reflect the nature of family farming, where husband and wife share the work but only one spouse's occupation is listed as "farmer".

 

Vito

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• Mar 25, 2019

• #1

SV,

Is that before or after the tax man takes his bite?


Vito

 

495man

Well-known Member

• Mar 25, 2019

• #1

I think they confuse gross and net.

Easy to make gross amounts per hour....

Not so easy to make net amounts per hour.

 

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morepower02

Member

• Mar 25, 2019

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(quoted from post at 18:49:12 03/24/19) Terribly wrong ! According to this I should be making
over 30$ an hour . No wonder citiots think farmers
and ranchers are rich .
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so your saying that as a farmer you do not draw a 69,000 salary out of your business? Gross or net makes no difference like it does in the private sector. What do you pay your self to pay the bills?