Construction worker

Laborer Aquatic Life in Palmetto, LA

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: Louisiana Aquaculture Investments
Where: Palmetto, LA
Places: 12
Pay: $14.84 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2027-01-16
Ends: 2027-07-16
Filed: 2026-11-02

What the work involves

Prepare traps for crawfish harvest - put bait into the traps and drop them into the ponds from boats. Harvest crawfish by pulling traps out of the water and into the boat. Empty traps into sorters, sort crawfish by size and put into crawfish sacks. Re-bait traps and drop back into the pond. Load crawfish onto trucks for shipping. General farm maintenance, filling vehicles and outboard motors with fuel moving boats and trucks to crawfish ponds on the farm. Cleaning up by shop area and around farm. The workers are employed to collect crawfish that are harvested by driving tractors to launch boats and pulling traps from ponds that contain crawfish. The crawfish are dumped into sorting trays; the traps are are re-baited and dropped back into the pond. Work as farm labor to do what is required as workers on the farm, as directed by the farm manager.

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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 $2,567 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