Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other offer sit among all 13,580 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

The occupation employed 13,580 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 3,000 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 33.7% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Vermont, whose location quotient of 5.59 says this work is 5.59 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $45,300 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($76,090) is 2.5 times the 10th percentile ($30,790), a gap of $45,300 a year. The mean of $47,180 sitting above the median of $43,410 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 43 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Ohio at $77,600; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other stands number 634 by employment and number 660 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 3% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 4,496,160 jobs. In 25 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $43,410, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 860 jobs, 6.3% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $48,780 a year, against $48,780 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,618 a month before tax, $1,670 biweekly, $835 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($37,810) to the 75th ($52,830) is worth $15,020 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $47,751 would sit between the median ($43,410) and the 75th percentile ($52,830), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $37,810, is $5,600 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: Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers, Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers, Pest Control Workers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.