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Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
Mix or apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation, or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or crops. Usually requires specific training and state or federal certification.
What a pesticide handler, sprayer, and applicator, vegetation does
Become a pesticide handler, sprayer, and applicator, vegetation
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good pesticide handler, sprayer, and applicator, vegetation
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $25 per hour with a typical salary of $47,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $21 and $30 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $11,500 and $46,600 per year.
- 42% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $27 per hour with a typical salary of $26,300 per year.
Pesticide Handler, Sprayer, And Applicator, Vegetation job outlook
- There are 638 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 210 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 3% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 22% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.