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Agricultural Inspectors
Inspect agricultural commodities, processing equipment, and facilities, and fish and logging operations, to ensure compliance with regulations and laws governing health, quality, and safety.
What an agricultural inspector does
Become an agricultural inspector
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good agricultural inspector
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $33 per hour with an average salary of $43,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $21 and $30 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $7,200 and $54,500 per year.
- 37% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $29 per hour with an average salary of $30,700 per year.
Agricultural Inspector job outlook
- There are 912 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 119 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 30% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.