Garden worker vs ground crew

The differences between garden workers and ground crews can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a garden worker and a ground crew. Additionally, a ground crew has an average salary of $33,390, which is higher than the $27,715 average annual salary of a garden worker.

The top three skills for a garden worker include mowing, water plants and customer service. The most important skills for a ground crew are mowing, GRASS, and snow removal.

Garden worker vs ground crew overview

	Garden Worker	Ground Crew
Yearly salary	$27,715	$33,390
Hourly rate	$13.32	$16.05
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	20,918	64,779
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	Bachelor's Degree, 48%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	2	2

Garden worker vs ground crew salary

Garden workers and ground crews have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Garden Worker	Ground Crew
Average salary	$27,715	$33,390
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $35,000	Between $26,000 And $41,000
Highest paying City	Richmond, CA	Juneau, AK
Highest paying state	Massachusetts	Massachusetts
Best paying company	New York Botanical Garden	Elcona Pro Shop
Best paying industry	Professional	Manufacturing

Differences between garden worker and ground crew education

There are a few differences between a garden worker and a ground crew in terms of educational background:

	Garden Worker	Ground Crew
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	Bachelor's Degree, 48%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Garden worker vs ground crew demographics

Here are the differences between garden workers' and ground crews' demographics:

	Garden Worker	Ground Crew
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 56.6% Female, 43.4%	Male, 89.3% Female, 10.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.4% Unknown, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 23.4% Asian, 1.5% White, 60.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%	Black or African American, 8.3% Unknown, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 18.7% Asian, 1.7% White, 66.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%
LGBT Percentage	3%	3%

Differences between garden worker and ground crew duties and responsibilities

Garden worker example responsibilities.

Participate in ordering of all nursery stock and managing inventory.
Utilize gardening tools and machinery such rototiller, hoes, rakes, shovels, chainsaw, and loppers
Help trim, prune, weed, edge, and add mulch to the garden.
Maintain cemetery's and have to dig graves.
Maintain lawn: mowing, trimming, and weeding.
Provide care and upkeep of the campus lawn such as planting flowers and mowing

Ground crew example responsibilities.

Manage the maintenance for all generators: small Honda 4000 and Onan 6500K's.
Used hand saws and hand pruners as well as motorized saws to manage tree cuttings on the ground.
Used rakes, shovels, pruning saws, brush trimmers, axes, and other equipment.
Collect debris and refuge from tree trimming and removal operations into piles using shovels, rakes, and other tools.
Use landscape tools-rakes, shovels, and shrub pruners.
Synchronize missile defense operations within NATO's southern region.

Garden worker vs ground crew skills

Common garden worker skills

Mowing, 34%
Water Plants, 17%
Customer Service, 15%
Mowers, 8%
Nursery, 6%
Pruners, 5%

Common ground crew skills

Mowing, 22%
GRASS, 14%
Snow Removal, 7%
Safety Procedures, 6%
General Upkeep, 5%
Fairways, 4%

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