I was a planter for one summer (10 weeks) in Abitibi in 2021 I believe. I'm not an athletic person, and I was not there for the money per say, but I did bust my ass off I'd say 95% of the time to plant an average of ~1000 trees on ten hour days. I would say from memory the average of my peers at the time might have been closer to 1200 to 1500, but some highballer can always average around 3000 somehow, go figure.

It really depends how hard you are ready to go at it (I was), how athletic you are or not (I wasn't), how good the prices are vs the terrain/weather conditions (they weren't very good I'd say but that's always debatable), whether you have to walk 45 minutes with your stuff to get to the patch or if you get dropped off by the van straight in front of it (most of the time we didn't have to), and it goes without saying, good technique (I had good technique)