• California Association of Winegrape Growers
• California Grape and Tree Fruit League
• California Growers Foundation
• Farm Employers Labor Service

• Sonoma County Winegrape Commission
• Ventura County Agricultural Association
• Western Growers
• Western United Dairymen

Regions:

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See notes below.  Report produced at UCB College of Natural Resources.
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Notes below explain terms used and aspects of data treatment in producing the reports.

Wages Section
Each type of job is briefly defined on the survey form to facilitate reporting wage rates relative to similar work, but some of the pay variation within a given job is attributable to differences across firms in the duties for which people with the same title are responsible. Pay for eight job titles could be reported per hour, per month, or both. The tables in this report of findings include columns showing the overall average, the average low and high, and the absolute low and high wages reported for each job by respondents in the subgroup specified at top of the page (by crop for each association, and by crop, region, and size for the overall sample). They also indicate the total number (N) of respondents reporting any wage for each respective job-pay type and the number (n) who pay at a single rate (lowest=highest) for a given job. The standard deviation (sd) is of the midpoint between each respondent’s lowest and highest wage rates for the job. The smaller the standard deviation, the closer that wages paid for the job by all responding firms tend to cluster around their average.

Since 2006 the survey has included questions about hiring FLCs and other contract firms for production services. In each table of wage results, statistics on wage rates for general laborers employed by these contractors are distinguished from those referring to direct employees. Below the wages table are two statistics indicating the extent of FLC use within a class of respondents: (1) the percentage of respondent firms that hire any contractors, and (2) the average share of their total labor expense that they pay for contracted work.

Benefits Section
The survey form provides check-boxes only for indicating “yes” to the question of whether employees receive each respective benefit. The “% providing” result on these reports is calculated as the number of respondents checking that box divided by the number of all (N) within the crop, region, or size group specified in the report title. Because this method treats all respondents who did not check a given benefit box the same, whether they would have checked a "no" box or would have simply left no entry for the item, it may understate the share of those who actually provide each benefit.

We hope you find these reports helpful and would welcome any suggestions to improve the survey.