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Farm Subsidies Per Farm Employee
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So What?
1) The Environmental Working Group studied how much the U.S. Government paid farmers under various subsidy programs
between 1995 and 2006. This chart is corrected for inflation to show constant FY2000 dollar values over time.
2) Direct Farm Employment includes farm proprietors and farm workers. Data available from 1995 through 2006.
3) Farm and Farm-Related Employment includes both Direct Farm Employment and a wide variety of jobs related to farming,
like farm equipment sales staff, farm equipment mechanics, produce buyers, food inspectors, grain elevator operators, and the
like. Data available only from 1995 through 2002.
4) Due to the widely varying nature of the farm subsidies (see chart), declining direct farm employment and increase in
farm-related employment (see chart), subsidy payments varied from about $1500 per direct farm employee in 1995-97 to nearly
$4400 per direct farm employee in 2000.
5) Even though subsidy payments were made to farm owners who are generally considered direct farm employees, it's
interesting to see that subsidies worked out to between about $350 in 1995-97 and nearly $1000 in 1999-01 per direct farm
and farm-related employee.
1) The Environmental Working Group studied how much the U.S. Government paid farmers under various subsidy programs
between 1995 and 2006. This chart is corrected for inflation to show constant FY2000 dollar values over time.
2) Direct Farm Employment includes farm proprietors and farm workers. Data available from 1995 through 2006.
3) Farm and Farm-Related Employment includes both Direct Farm Employment and a wide variety of jobs related to farming,
like farm equipment sales staff, farm equipment mechanics, produce buyers, food inspectors, grain elevator operators, and the
like. Data available only from 1995 through 2002.
4) Due to the widely varying nature of the farm subsidies (see chart), declining direct farm employment and increase in
farm-related employment (see chart), subsidy payments varied from about $1500 per direct farm employee in 1995-97 to nearly
$4400 per direct farm employee in 2000.
5) Even though subsidy payments were made to farm owners who are generally considered direct farm employees, it's
interesting to see that subsidies worked out to between about $350 in 1995-97 and nearly $1000 in 1999-01 per direct farm
and farm-related employee.
Supporting Evidence
Sources: Farm Subsidies: Environmental Working Group
Dollar Deflater: Budget of the U.S. Government, FY2008 Historical Tables, Table 10.1-Gross Domestic Product and Deflators Used in the
Historical Tables: 1940-2012
Farm and Farm-Related Employment: USDA Economic Research Service
Direct Farm Employment: US Commerce Department Bureau of Economic Analysis, 1969-2000, 2001-2006
Dollar Deflater: Budget of the U.S. Government, FY2008 Historical Tables, Table 10.1-Gross Domestic Product and Deflators Used in the
Historical Tables: 1940-2012
Farm and Farm-Related Employment: USDA Economic Research Service
Direct Farm Employment: US Commerce Department Bureau of Economic Analysis, 1969-2000, 2001-2006
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