How to hire a landscape labour

How to hire a landscape labour, step by step

Here's a step-by-step landscape labour hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a landscape labour job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new landscape labour
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring a landscape labour, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect landscape labour also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   The following list breaks down different types of landscape labours and their corresponding salaries.

   Type of Landscape Labour	Description	Hourly rate
   Landscape Labour	Grounds maintenance workers ensure that the grounds of houses, businesses, and parks are attractive, orderly, and healthy in order to provide a pleasant outdoor environment.	$11-17
   Irrigation Technician	An irrigation technician is responsible for installing, testing, and maintaining irrigation equipment such as sprinklers, suction valves, and pumps. Typical duties for this position include operating heavy machinery for trenching, installing wiring systems for irrigation timers, and inspecting equipment for a day's work... Show more	$12-21
   Ground Crew	Ground crews, also known as ground staff, are personnel that work at the airport. These crews are either avionics technicians, customer service and ramp agents, or flight dispatchers... Show more	$12-19

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • GRASS
   • Hand Tools
   • Mowing
   • Shovels
   • MOW Lawns
   • Blowers
   • Sprinklers
   • Snow Removal
   • Mowers
   • Rakes
   • Golf Courses
   • Lawn Care
   • Retaining Walls
   • Landscape Maintenance

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage hardscape installation team and project
   • Used equipment such as weed eaters, lawn mowers, shovels, etc accordingly to client's requests.
   • Plant trees, seeds, flowering plants, grass, shrubs, and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools.
   • Learned to use equipment such as edger's, backpack blowers, stand up and sit down lawn mowers, tractors.
   • Recommend purchasing smaller snow blowers.
   • Care for nursery stock and assist customers.

   More landscape labour duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your landscape labour job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A landscape labour salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, landscape labours' average salary in west virginia is 42% less than in alaska.
   • Seniority. Entry-level landscape labours earn 36% less than senior-level landscape labours.
   • Certifications. A landscape labour with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a landscape labour's salary.

   Average landscape labour salary

   $13.96hourly

   $29,047 yearly

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   Entry-level landscape labour salary

   $23,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 13, 2025

   Average landscape labour salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	New York	$35,183	$17
   2	Delaware	$32,537	$16
   3	Colorado	$31,341	$15
   4	Utah	$31,242	$15
   5	Michigan	$30,686	$15
   6	Illinois	$30,674	$15
   7	Ohio	$29,378	$14
   8	Texas	$29,050	$14
   9	Arizona	$29,000	$14
   10	Indiana	$28,909	$14
   11	Pennsylvania	$28,726	$14
   12	Georgia	$28,407	$14
   13	Oklahoma	$27,985	$13
   14	Virginia	$27,764	$13
   15	Missouri	$26,794	$13
   16	Louisiana	$26,330	$13
   17	North Carolina	$26,061	$13

   Average landscape labour salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Valley Brook Country Club	$39,458	$18.97
   2	Lexington Country Club	$39,305	$18.90	1
   3	Rasmussen Co Inc	$38,595	$18.56
   4	Foxborough High School	$38,115	$18.32
   5	ROARING GAP CLUB	$37,851	$18.20
   6	North Hills Country Club	$36,739	$17.66
   7	Chesterfields Ltd	$35,229	$16.94
   8	Schuylkill Country Club	$35,225	$16.94
   9	Allstate	$35,147	$16.90
   10	American Services	$34,894	$16.78
   11	Charles Schwab	$34,617	$16.64
   12	Four Seasons	$34,474	$16.57	2
   13	Maidstone Club	$34,452	$16.56
   14	The University of Chicago	$34,425	$16.55	2
   15	The Garden	$34,374	$16.53
   16	Green Hill	$33,978	$16.34
   17	Toll Brothers	$33,823	$16.26	2
   18	Tennant	$33,501	$16.11
   19	Progressive	$33,411	$16.06
   20	Bristol Farms	$33,344	$16.03

4. Writing a landscape labour job description

   A landscape labour job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of a landscape labour job description:

   Landscape labour job description example

   • Basic knowledge of plumbing, electric, carpentry & general maintenance.
   • Min. high school diploma or equivalent.
   • Strong work ethic and ability to take initiative.
   • Ability to multitask/stay on task & maintain focus in stressful situations.
   • Ability to work effectively individually and as a team member.

   Rate: $13.20-$14.70

   Location: Canandaigua, NY

   About Us:

   Ontario Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare is a long-term care facility that provides the highest possible quality of care and quality of life for all Health Facility residents. The facility provides a versatile nursing-home environment that encourages creativity among residents, managers, and staff. In addition to an emphasis on individuality and self-determination, the nursing home is viewed as a home as much as a medical institution, with the residents’ psychosocial needs deserving a prominence at least equal to their medical condition. At Ontario Center, we offer a friendly working environment, excellent compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, professional growth & stability, innovative training programs, and more. Ontario Center is a proud member of the Centers Health Care consortium.

   Centers Health Care is a fully integrated post-acute care continuum offering rehabilitation and skilled nursing services in more than 45 locations covering four states. In addition, we provide special services including in-center and home dialysis, ventilator care, and care for those with Alzheimer’s. The Centers Health Care family offers Skilled Nursing, Urgent Care, Managed Care, Renal Dialysis Services, Clinical Laboratory Services, Adult Day Health Care, and Assisted Living services, as well as every level of Home Care. Centers is well known for our commitment to our employees, offering outstanding ongoing training and development, career advancement opportunities, competitive pay rates, generous compensation packages and more.

   CentersHealthCare.com/careers

   Equal Opportunity Employer –M/F/D/V

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find landscape labours for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your landscape labour job on Zippia to find and recruit landscape labour candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting landscape labours requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new landscape labour

   Once you have selected a candidate for the landscape labour position, it is time to create an offer letter. In addition to salary, the offer letter should include details about benefits and perks that are available to the employee. Ensuring your offer is competitive is vital, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and it is important to be open to discussion and reach a mutually beneficial agreement. After the offer has been accepted, it is a good idea to formalize the agreement with a contract.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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