ABSTRACT:- The extension of agriculture as an integral part of agricultural development is one of the empowerment efforts of farmers and other agricultural businesses to increase productivity, income, and prosperity. The extension system provides guidance and information to farmers as well as direct practice with farmers. The output of the extension activities in addition to the increase in production is the change of mindset and behavior of farmers in conducting agriculture. Through counseling, it is hoped that the class level of farmer groups can be increased from beginner farming to able or primary farmer groups. The general purpose of this research is to investigate the influence of communication abilities, workload, and wages on the performance of agricultural extension at the Deli Serdang Regency Agriculture Office, North Sumatra, Indonesia.This type of research if viewed from its methodology, this research is categorized as Descriptive research. If reviewed from its data type, this study falls into quantitative research. The quantitative associative method in this study is to know the relationship of communication ability, workload, and wage to employee performance. The population of this research is the extension worker in the environment of the Deli Serdang Regency Government Agriculture Office amounting to 197 people. The sampling method used is a probability sampling method with 132 people with sampling criteria.The result of the research finds that communication ability has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Workload has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Working wages have a positive and significant effect on employee performance. It is hoped that the company’s leaders will continue to have visionary and openness to employees. It is expected that the researcher can further develop the result of this research by adding some other variables that are not studied in this research.

Keywords:- Employee performance, Communication ability, Workload, Wages.