Salaries / Landscaper / Groundskeeper
Personal Care & Service · SOC 37-3011
Landscaper / Groundskeeper salary
Landscaping and groundskeeping workers maintain lawns, gardens, and outdoor spaces for homes and businesses.
Median annual
$38,000
Median hourly
$18.30
Typical range
$30,000 to $52,000
Source: National estimate (to be replaced by live BLS data). Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
The pay range, visually.
Low end (about the 10th percentile), median, and high end (about the 90th percentile).
By state
State figures are estimates derived from the national median and a state wage index, shown to give a rough sense of local differences.
Your skills are a business
Ideas we have for people in personal care & service.
The same experience that earns a paycheck as a landscaper / groundskeeper can start a business. Here are real ideas from our marketplace that fit this field.
Start a Lawn Care and Landscaping Business
Mow, trim, and maintain yards on weekly routes, then add higher ticket landscaping projects as the customer base grows.
Start a Fruit-Tree and Food-Forest Design Service
Design and plant backyard orchards and food forests for homeowners: fruit trees, berries, and perennial edibles laid out to feed a family for decades.
Start a Raised-Bed and Edible-Landscape Install Business
Build and install raised beds, container gardens, and edible landscaping for homeowners who want to grow food but do not want to do the building.
Start a Small-Space and Apartment Gardening Business
Teach renters and city dwellers with no yard how to grow food on a balcony, patio, or windowsill, and sell starter kits, coaching, and workshops to go with it.
You could hire landscaper / groundskeepers, not just be one.
We have a staffing calculator to price the work and a full course on how to start a staffing agency, so you can turn a field you already know into a business that puts other people to work.