Garden worker vs lawn maintenance worker

The differences between garden workers and lawn maintenance 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 maintenance worker. Additionally, a lawn maintenance worker has an average salary of $29,351, 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 maintenance worker are lawn care, mowing, and GRASS.

Garden worker vs lawn maintenance worker overview

	Garden Worker	Lawn Maintenance Worker
Yearly salary	$27,715	$29,351
Hourly rate	$13.32	$14.11
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	20,918	87,281
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	High School Diploma, 54%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	2	2

Garden worker vs lawn maintenance worker salary

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

	Garden Worker	Lawn Maintenance Worker
Average salary	$27,715	$29,351
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $35,000	Between $23,000 And $36,000
Highest paying City	Richmond, CA	Sacramento, CA
Highest paying state	Massachusetts	Alaska
Best paying company	New York Botanical Garden	VisionCorp Rep
Best paying industry	Professional	Health Care

Differences between garden worker and lawn maintenance worker education

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

	Garden Worker	Lawn Maintenance Worker
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 34%	High School Diploma, 54%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Garden worker vs lawn maintenance worker demographics

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

	Garden Worker	Lawn Maintenance Worker
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 56.6% Female, 43.4%	Male, 89.7% Female, 10.3%
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, 11.4% Unknown, 3.7% Hispanic or Latino, 21.3% Asian, 1.5% White, 60.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%
LGBT Percentage	3%	3%

Differences between garden worker and lawn maintenance 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 maintenance worker example responsibilities.

Manage hardscape installation team and project
Operate powered equipment such as mowers, blowers, gas clippers.
hedge trimmer, rakes and shovels, lawn mower, weed-whacker, blower.
Operate weed eaters, lawn mowers, and blowers on residential and commercial properties.
edge weedeat blow mow prune plants trim hedges trim trees .. landscaping plants trees mulch sod
Maintain the association park by mowing and weed eating the grass, cutting brush and picking up garbage.

Garden worker vs lawn maintenance worker skills

Common garden worker skills

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

Common lawn maintenance worker skills

Lawn Care, 16%
Mowing, 16%
GRASS, 11%
Hand Tools, 9%
Ladders, 8%
Edge Lawns, 5%

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