The town of Abbotsford has grown into a large community in the Province. This growth has been fueled by the community's agricultural development. Though the main industries in Abbotsford include agriculture, transportation, retail and manufacturing, the city of Abbotsford earns its maximum dollar from the agricultural lands. The city of Abbotsford is the perfect destination for all the agricultural scientists, environment engineers and food processing professionals.

Abbotsford salary jobs in agriculture are available as general laborers, general farm worker, crop farm laborer, skilled farm laborer, general dairy person, seasonal research technician, sales agronomist, dairy head person, assistant section leader, green house production staff, herdsperson, administrative assistant etc. The general dairy and farm laborers are paid $ 15 to $ 20 per hour, general laborers $ 8 to $10 per hour and herdspersons $15 to $18 per hour. The Abbotsford salary jobs for agricultural managers will require candidates who are capable of analytical thinking, business development and validation, environmental awareness and understanding and also risk management.

Apart from the job opportunities in the agricultural sector, the statistics and studies show a number of Abbotsford salary jobs coming up in the private sector as well. Abbotsford has seen 10,430 jobs being created in the previous financial year, of which 8945 jobs belonged to the Abbotsford private sector. This has accounted for 81.5 percent of the Abbotsford job market. . About 17 percent of the Abbotsford salary jobs are from the local government. The state and federal governments also account for 0.09 and 1 percent respectively of the total Abbotsford salary jobs.

To get a vision of your job opportunity in the Abbotsford salary jobs, consider the 770 employers of Abbotsford. Among these 770, 680 firms belong to the private sector that makes up 88 percent of the Abbotsford salary jobs. There are 71 employers from the local government, 5 from state government and 17 from the federal government. The salaries per annum of the government sector employees are $25000 for local government employees, $59000 for state government employees and $34700 for federal government employees. The salary of an average Abbotsford salary job for the private sector is about $30000 per annum.

The private sector Abbotsford salary jobs are in the service industry and goods producing industry. There are 470 public sector employers in the service providing industry and 212 in the goods producing industry. The service providing Abbotsford salary jobs are in trade, utilities and transport, education and health services, leisure and hospitality services. The goods producing jobs include construction and manufacturing.

With agriculture deep in its roots and overall industrial development, the economy of Abbotsford has robustly faced the recent the economic downturn due to recession!