Garden worker vs lawn care worker

The differences between garden workers and lawn care workers 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 lawn care worker. Additionally, a lawn care worker has an average salary of $29,667, 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 lawn care worker are GRASS, mowing, and water lawns.

Garden worker vs lawn care worker overview

	Garden Worker	Lawn Care Worker
Yearly salary	$27,715	$29,667
Hourly rate	$13.32	$14.26
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	20,918	88,268
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	High School Diploma, 41%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	2	2

Garden worker vs lawn care worker salary

Garden workers and lawn care workers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Garden Worker	Lawn Care Worker
Average salary	$27,715	$29,667
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $35,000	Between $23,000 And $38,000
Highest paying City	Richmond, CA	Fargo, ND
Highest paying state	Massachusetts	Alaska
Best paying company	New York Botanical Garden	Lawn Doctor
Best paying industry	Professional	Health Care

Differences between garden worker and lawn care worker education

There are a few differences between a garden worker and a lawn care worker in terms of educational background:

	Garden Worker	Lawn Care Worker
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	High School Diploma, 41%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Garden worker vs lawn care worker demographics

Here are the differences between garden workers' and lawn care workers' demographics:

	Garden Worker	Lawn Care Worker
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 56.6% Female, 43.4%	Male, 77.5% Female, 22.5%
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, 11.0% Unknown, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 19.5% Asian, 1.5% White, 63.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%
LGBT Percentage	3%	3%

Differences between garden worker and lawn care worker 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

Lawn care worker example responsibilities.

Accomplish mowing lawns and all job relate requests given by managers precisely and accurately.
Winter property care equipment include snow blowers, shoveling, and salting.
Provide services such as mowing grass, seed lawns, applying fertilizer and pest control, and trimming hedges and trees.
Mow neighbor's lawns, trim lawn edge, clean driveway and sidewalk from cut grass, and bag cut grass.
Help to trim shrubs and prune dead branches.
Used snow shovels to clear sidewalks and small parking lots.

Garden worker vs lawn care worker skills

Common garden worker skills

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

Common lawn care worker skills

GRASS, 17%
Mowing, 16%
Water Lawns, 10%
Lawn Care, 9%
CPR, 6%
Program Rules, 5%

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