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Compensating Farm Employees

Summary

Hiring and managing employees is a new and challenging experience for many Ohio farm managers. As farms continue to become larger and more complex, and farm family demographics change, the need to effectively manage hired employees is likely to increase. How you compensate these employees can help to determine how successful these employees will be, since compensation perceived to be unreasonable by the employee can be an important source of job dissatisfaction. This fact sheet is intended to provide farm managers with information regarding various types of compensation.