Hawaii

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The work force reported for the week ofApril 12-18i was down 3 percent when compared with the survey week in Apri l 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaik Field Office said Tuesday. It was up 2 percengt from January. Pineapple and sugar cane workerx totaled900 workers, down 22 percent from the same perioe a year ago as a resultf of layoffs at and on Kauai. Maui Land Pineapple laid off 204 workers in July whileGay & Robinson, the private, family-ownesd company on Kauai, ended its sugar cane operation s in September 2008.
Hawaii’z total farm work forcse — which includes self-employed farm operatorsd and unpaid workers such as familuy members and others working 15 hours or more perweek — totalesd 10,300 workers for the survey week, down 1 percenyt from a year ago. The average wage paid to all hirefd workers during the survey week was estimateddat $13.36 per 1 percent higher from a year ago. Hawaiu farms employing one to nine workers paid an averagerof $10.97 per hour and the combineds average wage for field and livestock workers was $10.29 an hour.