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title: "Farm and Home Management Educator"
description: "Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate…"
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# Farm and Home Management Educator

**Category:** Educational Instruction and Library · **SOC code:** 25-9021 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 25-9021.00

Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.

Also advertised as: 4-H Youth Development Educator; 4-H Youth Development Specialist; 4-H Youth Educator; Agricultural Extension Educator; Community Educator; Extension Agent; Extension Educator; Extension Specialist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $60,220 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $28.95/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $37,650 to $85,060, with the middle half between $46,990 and $73,130
- **Total US employment:** 8,220
- **Typical entry education:** Master's
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -3.2% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 800 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 49/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 8,220 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $37,650 |
| 25th | $46,990 |
| 50th (median) | $60,220 |
| 75th | $73,130 |
| 90th | $85,060 |
| Mean (average) | $61,060 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA | $98,770 | $89,207 | 40 |
| OR | $80,030 | $77,428 | Not published by BLS |
| MD | $79,780 | $76,011 | 150 |
| VA | $76,710 | $75,872 | 520 |
| AZ | $73,210 | $72,718 | 30 |
| MA | $66,920 | $63,277 | 40 |
| CO | $66,230 | $64,269 | 90 |
| ME | $65,780 | $67,779 | 70 |
| IN | $65,740 | $70,439 | 360 |
| MI | $65,030 | $67,587 | 330 |
| NC | $64,280 | $68,147 | 910 |
| ND | $63,480 | $71,359 | 90 |
| WA | $63,440 | $59,283 | Not published by BLS |
| DE | $63,300 | $63,422 | 80 |
| VT | $62,830 | $64,140 | 50 |

20 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 35 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/farm-and-home-management-educator/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/farm-and-home-management-educator.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 9,700 in the 2025–2035 base year to 9,400 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 300 jobs, or -3.2%. Declining: -3.2% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 800 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Master's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Master's Degree | 70.4% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 14.8% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 3.7% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 3.7% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 3.7% |
| Doctoral Degree | 3.7% |

## What the work involves

- Collect and evaluate data to determine community program needs.
- Conduct classes or deliver lectures on subjects such as nutrition, home management, and farming techniques.
- Collaborate with producers to diagnose and prevent management and production problems.
- Research information requested by farmers.
- Conduct field demonstrations of new products, techniques, or services.
- Prepare and distribute leaflets, pamphlets, and visual aids for educational and informational purposes.
- Organize, advise, and participate in community activities and organizations, such as county and state fair events and 4-H Clubs.
- Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livestock, growing and harvesting practices, and financial planning.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Education and Training — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Food Production — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Communications and Media — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Expression — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Social (S), Investigative (I), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| S — Social | 4.83 |
| I — Investigative | 4.28 |
| R — Realistic | 3.96 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.49 |
| C — Conventional | 3.18 |
| A — Artistic | 2.31 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESFJ | 61.6 |
| ISFJ | 60.1 |
| ESTJ | 57.7 |
| ESFP | 56.1 |
| ISTJ | 53.2 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ, ISFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Agricultural Sciences Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/agricultural-sciences-teacher-postsecondary) — median $98,700
- [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) — median $101,860
- [Range Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/range-manager) — median $73,010
- [Soil and Plant Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/soil-and-plant-scientist) — median $78,850
- [Career/Technical Education Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-technical-education-teacher-postsecondary) — median $63,820
- [Business Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-teacher-postsecondary) — median $99,080
- [Career/Technical Education Teacher, Middle School](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-technical-education-teacher-middle-school) — median $65,030
- [Career/Technical Education Teacher, Secondary School](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-technical-education-teacher-secondary-school) — median $66,270
- [Health Education Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-education-specialist) — median $64,070
- [Instructional Coordinator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/instructional-coordinator) — median $77,440

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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