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Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other earn $46,860 a year at the midpoint

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The lowest tenth are paid about $31,650, the highest tenth about $74,820 — figures from the 2025 federal wage survey.

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$46,860median a year · United States
$22.53an hour $48,830average 13,630people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$37,52025th $46,860median $57,82075th
$31,65010th percentile $74,82090th percentile
$37,520a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$78,580best-paying state · Indiana
$31,420lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+68%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $78,580 in Indiana and $31,420 in Mississippi — a gap of $47,160 a year.

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Median pay for grounds maintenance workers, all other, by state

The 35 states where the most people do this work, of 39 with a published figure: their medians range by 2.50 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Indiana $78,580 $37,860 $37,860 — $80,080 40
Minnesota $73,300 $38,270 $38,270 — $80,080 60
Oklahoma $73,300 $48,690 $48,690 — $80,080 30
Arizona $72,550 $57,640 $57,640 — $80,080 30
Massachusetts $72,550 $47,680 $47,680 — $86,000 —
New Jersey $71,800 $36,210 $36,210 — $80,080 40
New York $60,150 $35,050 $35,050 — $80,080 220
Iowa $57,030 $41,980 $41,980 — $80,080 40
Missouri $55,560 $34,970 $34,970 — $81,880 —
Virginia $54,990 $35,710 $35,710 — $80,080 120
New Hampshire $53,120 $41,230 $41,230 — $80,080 30
Connecticut $53,090 $37,350 $37,350 — $80,080 50
Alaska $52,700 $39,920 $39,920 — $75,570 130
Maryland $52,280 $35,620 $35,620 — $80,080 190
Alabama $51,620 $21,870 $21,870 — $80,080 40
Ohio $50,600 $49,920 $49,920 — $80,080 —
Illinois $50,150 $47,110 $47,110 — $80,080 —
Montana $49,580 $39,620 $39,620 — $62,640 210
Florida $49,000 $32,290 $32,290 — $79,330 330
Oregon $48,890 $33,130 $33,130 — $63,470 660
California $48,870 $38,220 $38,220 — $69,930 3,710
Colorado $48,280 $31,490 $31,490 — $68,900 850
Washington $46,900 $38,220 $38,220 — $74,050 —
Kentucky $46,790 $28,910 $28,910 — $80,080 70
South Carolina $45,360 $31,180 $31,180 — $80,080 120
Maine $44,570 $36,990 $36,990 — $77,880 90
District of Columbia $44,470 $41,100 $41,100 — $80,080 30
Nevada $43,230 $37,120 $37,120 — $74,820 140
Vermont $42,680 $37,960 $37,960 — $66,030 120
Tennessee $39,980 $29,330 $29,330 — $51,210 640
Georgia $39,840 $32,200 $32,200 — $61,190 460
Wyoming $38,660 $27,040 $27,040 — $77,710 90
West Virginia $38,060 $30,090 $30,090 — $80,080 80
Idaho $36,000 $34,310 $34,310 — $76,320 40
Mississippi $31,420 $23,630 $23,630 — $71,050 80

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Nearby work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other$46,860
Tree Trimmers and Pruners$50,960+$4,100 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation$46,340−$520 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$39,150−$7,710

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  • Mowed or edged lawns, using power mowers or edgers.
  • Filled sprayer tanks with water and chemicals, according to formulas.
  • Operated shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.

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Place 591 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 25% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 589 Bill and Account Collectors $47,030
  2. 590 Roustabouts, Oil and Gas $46,960
  3. 591 Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other $46,860
  4. 592 Rehabilitation Counselors $46,850
  5. 593 Self-Enrichment Teachers $46,800

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Questions people ask

How much do grounds maintenance workers, all other make a year?

The national median is $46,860 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $37,520 and $57,820.

What is the hourly pay for grounds maintenance workers, all other?

The median is $22.53 an hour; the average is $48,830 a year.

What do grounds maintenance workers, all other earn when they start?

A beginner is usually paid nearer the 25th percentile, $37,520 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $31,650.

Which state pays grounds maintenance workers, all other the most?

Indiana, with a median of $78,580 a year.

How many people work as grounds maintenance workers, all other?

About 13,630 in the United States — number 591 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $60 of what grounds maintenance workers, all other earn — $46,860 a year — but not always the same spread.

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