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Tree Trimmers and Pruners earn $50,960 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 55,160 people in this work, the midpoint is $50,960 a year, with most starting near $44,840.

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$50,960median a year · United States
$24.50an hour $55,970average 55,160people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$44,84025th $50,960median $63,90075th
$37,94010th percentile $80,31090th percentile
$44,840a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$77,460best-paying state · Minnesota
$39,380lowest-paying state · Nebraska
+52%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 $77,460 in Minnesota and $39,380 in Nebraska — a gap of $38,080 a year.

Tree trimmer earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Ranked 503 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 36% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 501 Proofreaders and Copy Markers $51,120
  2. 502 Home Appliance Repairers $50,990
  3. 503 Tree Trimmers and Pruners $50,960
  4. 504 Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other $50,890
  5. 505 Counselors, All Other $50,860

Tree trimmer wages in each state

The 44 states where the most people do this work, of 49 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.94 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Minnesota $77,460 $63,580 $63,580 — $77,460 —
Oregon $75,440 $51,220 $51,220 — $94,470 1,610
New Jersey $71,940 $52,830 $52,830 — $80,730 —
Illinois $64,450 $50,300 $50,300 — $90,840 700
Washington $63,850 $44,530 $44,530 — $93,620 700
California $62,550 $35,750 $35,750 — $92,270 9,610
Massachusetts $62,550 $49,020 $49,020 — $80,910 2,090
New York $62,400 $41,600 $41,600 — $83,700 3,750
Vermont $62,170 $48,340 $48,340 — $72,950 430
Missouri $61,140 $37,560 $37,560 — $70,950 970
Rhode Island $61,040 $59,880 $59,880 — $71,170 110
New Hampshire $59,660 $47,320 $47,320 — $63,000 330
Montana $59,580 $46,950 $46,950 — $69,760 230
Pennsylvania $58,200 $46,800 $46,800 — $75,750 3,160
Wisconsin $57,930 $45,880 $45,880 — $77,250 1,190
Michigan $57,550 $45,500 $45,500 — $66,880 1,840
Hawaii $56,990 $46,310 $46,310 — $77,160 170
Utah $56,890 $52,070 $52,070 — $71,260 200
Colorado $51,390 $47,600 $47,600 — $61,660 1,200
Nevada $51,210 $39,850 $39,850 — $62,940 190
Arizona $50,680 $37,510 $37,510 — $59,360 —
South Dakota $50,430 $40,040 $40,040 — $70,650 270
Ohio $49,650 $44,990 $44,990 — $57,450 1,460
Delaware $49,330 $47,950 $47,950 — $78,580 —
West Virginia $49,140 $36,350 $36,350 — $57,260 1,420
Connecticut $48,930 $37,670 $37,670 — $78,720 360
Virginia $48,550 $38,930 $38,930 — $59,350 1,070
North Carolina $48,480 $36,130 $36,130 — $62,600 1,560
Kansas $48,400 $39,050 $39,050 — $62,190 390
Louisiana $47,350 $33,400 $33,400 — $62,360 120
Tennessee $47,350 $38,060 $38,060 — $61,480 710
New Mexico $47,330 $45,070 $45,070 — $62,740 —
Maryland $47,210 $39,310 $39,310 — $64,110 730
Oklahoma $46,950 $38,110 $38,110 — $56,170 860
Georgia $46,910 $26,210 $26,210 — $62,230 1,030
Florida $46,070 $28,690 $28,690 — $58,210 2,770
Indiana $46,050 $37,900 $37,900 — $58,910 1,850
Arkansas $45,650 $28,950 $28,950 — $67,920 290
Kentucky $44,410 $26,890 $26,890 — $57,440 1,020
South Carolina $43,660 $29,960 $29,960 — $60,610 430
Iowa $42,890 $20,440 $20,440 — $68,530 380
Mississippi $41,560 $35,650 $35,650 — $60,520 260
Alabama $41,500 $33,350 $33,350 — $57,390 890
Texas $39,880 $35,610 $35,610 — $49,220 4,460

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  • Operated shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
  • Operated boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
  • Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or cleared branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.

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Neighbouring work, and what it pays

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

Tree Trimmers and Pruners$50,960
Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other$46,860−$4,100 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation$46,340−$4,620 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$39,150−$11,810

Tree trimmer pay rate, hourly and yearly

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Questions people often ask

What is a tree trimmer’s yearly income?

A tree trimmer makes a median of $50,960 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $44,840 and $63,900.

What is a tree trimmer’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $24.50 an hour; the average is $55,970 a year.

What is the starting pay for a tree trimmer?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $44,840 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $37,940.

Which state pays tree trimmers and pruners the most?

Minnesota, with a median of $77,460 a year.

How many people work as tree trimmers and pruners?

About 55,160 in the United States — number 503 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $160 of what tree trimmers and pruners earn — $50,960 a year — but not always the same spread.

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