Landscape contractor vs lawn care worker

The differences between landscape contractors 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 landscape contractor and a lawn care worker. Additionally, a landscape contractor has an average salary of $30,650, which is higher than the $29,667 average annual salary of a lawn care worker.

The top three skills for a landscape contractor include mowing, general maintenance and retaining walls. The most important skills for a lawn care worker are GRASS, mowing, and water lawns.

Landscape contractor vs lawn care worker overview

	Landscape Contractor	Lawn Care Worker
Yearly salary	$30,650	$29,667
Hourly rate	$14.74	$14.26
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	19,038	88,268
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 44%	High School Diploma, 41%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	2	2

Landscape contractor vs lawn care worker salary

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

	Landscape Contractor	Lawn Care Worker
Average salary	$30,650	$29,667
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $43,000	Between $23,000 And $38,000
Highest paying City	-	Fargo, ND
Highest paying state	-	Alaska
Best paying company	-	Lawn Doctor
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between landscape contractor and lawn care worker education

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

	Landscape Contractor	Lawn Care Worker
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 44%	High School Diploma, 41%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Landscape contractor vs lawn care worker demographics

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

	Landscape Contractor	Lawn Care Worker
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 89.5% Female, 10.5%	Male, 77.5% Female, 22.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.4% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 25.9% Asian, 2.3% White, 56.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.5%	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 landscape contractor and lawn care worker duties and responsibilities

Landscape contractor example responsibilities.

Manage clients and run all landscape operations including groundskeeping, seasonal cleaning, and pressure washing
Used hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, punishing tools etc.
Used hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, saws, hedge, brush trimmers, and axes
Used hand or power tools such as fertilizer spreaders, mowers, blowers, edgers and weedwhackers.
Take, mulch, and prune grounds as needed.
Install sprinklers or lighting systems.

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.

Landscape contractor vs lawn care worker skills

Common landscape contractor skills

Mowing, 16%
General Maintenance, 8%
Retaining Walls, 8%
Lawn Care, 7%
Landscape Design, 6%
MOW, 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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