Know Your Worth / Environment & agriculture
Environment and agriculture careers combine field evidence, data, operations, education, technology, and community priorities. Distinguish analytical support from scientific or regulated sign-off, and compare the actual qualifications, travel, seasonal workload, measurement uncertainty, and delivery responsibilities behind an employee position or independent service.
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All careersEmployee references are annual US median wages for the cited BLS occupation, which may cover several career paths. Freelance examples add $15,000 for benefits and $20,000 for business costs, then divide by 1,200 billable hours a year. Annual figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000 and hourly figures to the nearest dollar. Figures are before personal taxes, with no percentage fees. Open a guide to see the source or adjust the assumptions in the calculator.
BLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Analyzes farm or agricultural-service information to explain operational patterns and uncertainty while leaving agronomic, veterinary, and other specialist decisions with qualified practitioners.
View career → Agricultural data analystBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Translates reviewed agricultural knowledge into accessible learning and practical discussion, adapting communication to local contexts while keeping specialist recommendations within appropriate expertise.
View career → Agricultural extension educatorBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Prioritizes agricultural technology around growers' actual workflows, connectivity, equipment, evidence, and support constraints rather than assuming a digital interface automatically improves field outcomes.
View career → Agricultural technology product managerBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Designs records and handoffs that help agricultural supply chains follow product movement, preserving evidence quality and qualified ownership of safety, certification, or regulatory claims.
View career → Agricultural traceability consultantBLS · May 2025 · Food Scientists and Technologists
Applies crop and soil expertise within appropriate education, professional competence, and local requirements, connecting field evidence with documented recommendations and uncertainty.
View career → AgronomistBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Organizes species and habitat information to support conservation questions, accounting for sampling effort, identification uncertainty, and limits on comparisons across places or periods.
View career → Biodiversity data analystBLS · May 2025 · Accountants and auditors
Organizes emissions-related activity information, calculation assumptions, and evidence trails under an agreed methodology, distinguishing an inventory estimate from assurance or a verified reduction claim.
View career → Carbon accounting consultantBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Helps organizations examine reuse, repair, recovery, and service-model options using evidence about materials, customer behavior, operations, and practical constraints rather than circularity slogans.
View career → Circular economy consultantBLS · May 2025 · Financial and investment analysts
Examines how climate-related scenarios could affect assets or operations, documenting assumptions, uncertainty, and exposure rather than presenting a scenario as a forecast of precise future losses.
View career → Climate risk analystBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinates conservation work across partners, schedules, budgets, permissions, and scientific responsibilities while ensuring local knowledge and qualified ecological decisions shape implementation.
View career → Conservation project managerBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Organizes restoration logistics, partners, records, and monitoring under qualified ecological direction, ensuring administrative progress is not mistaken for evidence that an ecosystem has recovered.
View career → Ecological restoration project coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Investigates energy-use patterns and practical improvement opportunities within appropriate competence, coordinating qualified technical review before recommending equipment changes or claiming verified savings.
View career → Energy efficiency consultantBLS · May 2025 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
Studies environmental measurements and monitoring information, explaining quality, coverage, and uncertainty before teams draw conclusions about conditions, trends, or proposed interventions.
View career → Environmental data analystBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Uses geographic information to explore environmental questions, preserving source dates, coordinate assumptions, spatial uncertainty, and the difference between mapped indicators and validated field conditions.
View career → Environmental GIS specialistBLS · May 2025 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
Organizes environmental evidence, project effects, and assessment questions within appropriate scientific and regulatory review, distinguishing analytical support from authorized environmental approval.
View career → Environmental impact analystBLS · May 2025 · Technical writers
Coordinates sustainability and governance reporting by connecting approved claims to evidence, definitions, owners, and review responsibilities rather than presenting incomplete disclosures as verified performance.
View career → ESG reporting specialistBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Helps farms examine staffing, scheduling, records, logistics, and process constraints without assuming operational experience authorizes agronomic, veterinary, machinery, or regulated advice.
View career → Farm operations consultantBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Examines how production, distribution, access, institutions, and local priorities interact, helping communities compare evidence and planning options without assuming one intervention solves food insecurity.
View career → Food systems plannerBLS · May 2025 · Food Scientists and Technologists
Supports pest-management decisions through appropriate training, evidence, and authorized professional scope, emphasizing identification, monitoring, and qualified review rather than generic treatment recipes.
View career → Integrated pest management adviserBLS · May 2025 · Web and digital interface designers
Develops irrigation designs within applicable technical competence, permissions, water constraints, and professional requirements, coordinating qualified review before installation or operational changes.
View career → Irrigation designerBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Supports the authorized use of agricultural sensing, mapping, and digital tools, coordinating setup, data validation, user training, and qualified ownership of field recommendations.
View career → Precision agriculture technologistBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Organizes recycling services, participation, communications, and evidence across sites or communities, checking actual collection requirements rather than assuming every labeled material is accepted locally.
View career → Recycling program coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Interprets remotely sensed imagery for environmental or agricultural questions, documenting data resolution, classification uncertainty, and the field evidence required to test an interpretation.
View career → Remote sensing analystBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinates renewable-energy project administration, schedules, partners, and approvals while keeping engineering, installation, safety, and regulatory decisions with appropriately qualified owners.
View career → Renewable energy project coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Food Scientists and Technologists
Investigates soil properties and processes through appropriate scientific methods, field permissions, and qualified interpretation, connecting evidence with its limits rather than generalizing from one sample.
View career → Soil scientistBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Examines organizational sustainability information, operating practices, and evidence gaps so teams can compare priorities without treating an attractive metric as proof of environmental improvement.
View career → Sustainability analystBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Organizes community growing projects through participant support, permissions, schedules, partnerships, and qualified technical guidance while distinguishing project activity from verified environmental or social outcomes.
View career → Urban agriculture coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Examines waste streams, service workflows, documentation, and improvement options within applicable specialist requirements, distinguishing operational recommendations from authorization to handle restricted materials.
View career → Waste management consultantBLS · May 2025 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
Reviews water-monitoring information for quality, consistency, and interpretable patterns while leaving sampling authorization, laboratory conclusions, and health or regulatory decisions with qualified professionals.
View career → Water quality data analystBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinates watershed initiatives across communities, technical specialists, land interests, and funding requirements, making responsibilities and evidence needs clear without assuming agreement or environmental improvement.
View career → Watershed program coordinator