Farm and agricultural worker

Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products in Bliss, New York

This is an H-2A job order, which means the employer has already applied to hire workers from outside the United States for it.

Employer: CSS Farms LLC
Where: Bliss, New York
Places: 72
Pay: $16 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2026-09-01
Ends: 2027-07-01
Filed: 2026-06-25

What the work involves

Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition; perform manual, hand labor including sweeping, raking, washing, and shoveling; direct unloading of potatoes; hand pick foreign material; sort foreign material such as rock and dirt that has gotten past the grader and hand pick any extra foreign material out; clean up crop pieces and foreign material from around the line to maintain appropriate food and worker safety; stack potatoes in a controlled fashion. Candidate may work nights and weekends. Employer may request but cannot require workers to work on their Sabbath. Rate of pay may be more depending on experience.

How to apply

Apply directly with the employer named above. Workmerica is not an agency, takes no fee and is not involved in this hiring.

Open the original job order

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Seasonal Jobs.

What that comes to in a month

At forty hours a week, the rate in this filing works out at about $2,768 a month before tax. That is the standard full-time month of 173 hours; overtime, deductions and the cost of getting there are not in it.

How the work permit works in the United States

Employer-sponsored temporary or permanent labor certification. The employer files with the Department of Labor first. Which programme applies depends on the work and whether it is seasonal.

Published by U.S. Department of Labor, foreign labor certification