Industry Insight: See How Your Business Compares With Pay and Benefits for Key Roles

The Scoop’s annual salary survey offers benchmarking data to aid with recruiting and retaining ag retail employees.

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As a service business, an ag retailer is dependent on a strong team with dependable, professional and knowledgeable individuals. Every year as an industry benchmark for recruiting, retaining and engaging employees, The Scoop conducts an email survey about compensation — salary and benefits.

The 2026 survey had more than 110 responses across 26 states with all individuals holding managerial or supervisory roles. The top states for responses were California, Iowa and Minnesota.

About Our Survey Respondents

The Scoop 2026 Salary Survey

Benefits and Influence

The Scoop 2026 Salary Survey
The Scoop 2026 Salary Survey

Applicators/Machine Operators

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The Scoop 2026 Salary Survey

Sales Agronomists

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The Scoop 2026 Salary Survey

Take a look at previous survey results:

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