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

The $58,430 midpoint sits $4.04 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 17% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers.

130,760 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.

Supervising cleaning and grounds crews suits people who can schedule labour across sites and be judged on a standard the client sees every single day.

How long it takes to become one of the 130,760 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

A quarter earn below $47,390 and a quarter above $72,590: a 1.5x ratio, $25,200 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers earns under $47,390, which is within $2,630 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.

Avoid it if you cannot manage a crew across sites you cannot see, which is the whole supervisory problem here.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 130,760 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

1.5x between $47,390 and $72,590 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $58,430 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers runs $47,390 to $72,590 — $25,200 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $58,430.

Between $47,390 and $72,590 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $58,430. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,160; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $25,200.

From $58,430 it is $11,040 down to the bottom quarter and $14,160 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers is $28.09 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.78 and $34.89, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.