Job Title: Dairy Herdsperson
Description: Responsible for daily health care, feeding, management, and record- keeping for cows on a large dairy. May supervise other farm workers.
Degree Required: AS
- Associate's Degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and some four-year bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years.
Skills Required: Bilingual, Farm animal care, Good hand-eye coordination, Independent worker, Leadership abilities, Learns on the job, Managing people, Managing material resources, Negotiator, Oral communication skills, Quick thinker, Record maintenance, Thinks outside the box, Time management skills
Market Sector: Farm/Ranch, Self-Employed
Relative Salary: $$$
- We did not collect actual income range information in our survey. Instead we chose to express income range with a number of dollar signs, expressing relative salaries. A single $ is relatively low salary compared to the average, $$ - $$$ is average, and $$$$$ is much higher than average income.
Since each person surveyed may have a different viewpoint as to what constitutes an average salary, and since salary is often commensurate with years of experience, the number of dollar signs should not be regarded as an absolute, but only as an indicator.