However, saying that employing workers correlates with CSA farmers’ increased earnings is not the same as saying that the most profitable CSA farms exploit their workers the most. Indeed, many CSA farmers with high earnings noted that they have a number of farmworker benefits that are absent in other sectors of California agriculture, including opportunities for upward mobility in management, health insurance, no-interest loans, and free produce (see also Guthman 2004a). There is no correlation (r = 0.00) between year-round farmworkers’ wages and farmers’ earnings, indicating that these CSAs with high earnings pay their workers the same as other CSAs with low earnings (the average wage is $10.18 per hour). All these relationships suggest that there are economies of scale in CSA operations and that for farmers to retain earnings from these economies of scale, they must hire others to work in the operation. If workers’ benefits in the largest CSAs are considered part of the real wage, these farms are both increasing returns to the farmers (relative to other CSAs) and increasing their workers’ real wage, although it still might not be enough to cover basic expenses.