Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws.
• Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Gather and remove litter.
• Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.
• Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.
• Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage.
• Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.

Technology

• Facebook
• IBM Notes
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Word

Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in CA
  Median $45,560 · Employment 106,180
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in FL
  Median $37,100 · Employment 86,040
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in TX
  Median $36,740 · Employment 63,430
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in New York, NY
  Median $45,530 · Employment 50,410
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in NY
  Median $44,840 · Employment 47,600
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in PA
  Median $39,500 · Employment 34,850
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in IL
  Median $43,790 · Employment 34,780
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in OH
  Median $38,220 · Employment 34,420
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in NC
  Median $37,910 · Employment 32,730
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in MI
  Median $38,120 · Employment 32,330
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in NJ
  Median $41,360 · Employment 30,470
• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers Salary in Los Angeles, CA
  Median $44,650 · Employment 27,860

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