First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers offer sit among all 124,130 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 124,130, or 0.08% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 14,090 jobs; the top three states sum to 28.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Idaho posts a location quotient of 1.85, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $46,350 at the 25th percentile, $56,170 at the middle, $70,320 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $43,810, a ratio of 2.1 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is New Jersey at $76,060; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers stands number 238 by employment and number 459 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations, the group median wage is $44,730 across 10 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 26% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.8% of the group's 4,496,160 jobs. In 24 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $56,170, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 5,800 jobs, 4.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 342 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $49,350 a year, against $80,400 in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers paycheck, gross, is $2,160 every two weeks on an annual $56,170, which is $4,681 a month and $1,080 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($46,350) to the 75th ($70,320) is worth $23,970 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $61,787 would sit between the median ($56,170) and the 75th percentile ($70,320), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $46,350, is $9,820 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Sibling occupations in Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations: Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, Pest Control Workers, Tree Trimmers and Pruners, Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation, Building Cleaning Workers, All Other. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.