摘要：Approximately 906,000 persons 15 years of age and older were employed ashired farmworkers each week in 1996. An additional 72,000 persons were hiredas farmworkers each week as a secondary job. Hired farmworkers were morelikely than all U.S. wage and salary workers to be male, Hispanic, younger, lesseducated, never married, and non-U.S. citizens. Hired farmworkers' real medi-an earnings increased 4 percent between 1990 and 1996; real median weeklyearnings for all wage and salary workers decreased about 4 percent. This reportexamines demographic and employment characteristics of hired farmworkers,using data from the 1996 Current Population Survey (CPS) earnings microdatafile.
关键词：Hired farmworkers; annual averages; demographic characteristics;hours worked; median weekly hours
