Also called: Apiarist
Keeps thousands of beehives for honey and to pollinate crops.
Commercial beekeepers truck hives to California almond orchards each spring, check colonies for disease, and harvest honey. Many run family businesses.
Business income varies with crops and colony health.
High school diploma, about 1 year after high school. On-the-job training; beekeeping courses.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Self-taught. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Entomology, Agriculture.
Growing about average. No separate BLS projection; estimate based on related occupations.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Robotic hives that inspect and treat colonies automatically are spreading; trucking hives and managing disease still need beekeepers.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to commercial beekeeping operations for seasonal crew work moving and checking hives
Classes: Biology, Ag science CTE, Business, Chemistry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 45-2093.
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