Some of the skills we found on groundskeeping maintenance resumes included "customer service," "cleanliness," and "hvac." We have detailed the most important groundskeeping maintenance responsibilities below.
See the full list of groundskeeping maintenance skills.
After discovering the most helpful skills, we moved onto what kind of education might be helpful in becoming a groundskeeping maintenance. We found that 19.1% of groundskeeping maintenances have graduated with a bachelor's degree and 0.6% of people in this position have earned their master's degrees. While some groundskeeping maintenances have a college degree, you may find it's also true that generally it's possible to be successful in this career with only a high school degree. In fact, our research shows that one out of every two groundskeeping maintenances were not college graduates.
Those groundskeeping maintenances who do attend college, typically earn either business degrees or general studies degrees. Less commonly earned degrees for groundskeeping maintenances include criminal justice degrees or automotive technology degrees.
Once you've obtained the level of education you're comfortable with, you might start applying to companies to become a groundskeeping maintenance. We've found that most groundskeeping maintenance resumes include experience from StoneMor, Wallick Communities, and Investment Property Group. Of recent, StoneMor had 138 positions open for groundskeeping maintenances. Meanwhile, there are 36 job openings at Wallick Communities and 5 at Investment Property Group.
If you're interested in companies where groundskeeping maintenances make the most money, you'll want to apply for positions at Mack-Cali Realty, Cargill, and University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. We found that at Mack-Cali Realty, the average groundskeeping maintenance salary is $41,234. Whereas at Cargill, groundskeeping maintenances earn roughly $39,001. And at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, they make an average salary of $37,905.
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Some other companies you might be interested in as a groundskeeping maintenance include Walmart, University of Connecticut, and McDonald's. These three companies were found to hire the most groundskeeping maintenances from the top 100 U.S. educational institutions.
For the most part, groundskeeping maintenances make their living in the hospitality and real estate industries. Groundskeeping maintenances tend to make the most in the real estate industry with an average salary of $32,000. The groundskeeping maintenance annual salary in the finance and health care industries generally make $31,930 and $31,304 respectively. Additionally, groundskeeping maintenances who work in the real estate industry make 13.1% more than groundskeeping maintenances in the government Industry.