Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.
952,640 people do this job in the US. $39,150 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 19 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 20% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 15% | 50 min17 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 1.3 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Rake, mulch, and compost leaves.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Care for natural turf fields, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage and to support the grasses.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Gather and remove litter.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Shovel snow from walks, driveways, or parking lots, and spread salt in those areas.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 1% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation18% now, 18% by 2028
- Tree Trimmers and Pruners3% now, 9% by 2028
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse4% now, 4% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers28% now, 32% by 2028
- Agricultural Equipment Operators0% now, 0% by 2028
- Highway Maintenance Workers0% now, 0% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).