hourly wage average for landscape worker
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 821,750 landscapers and groundskeepers employed nationwide as of May 2011. These workers use power equipment such as mowers, and work by hand shoveling mulch, among their varied grounds tasks. They earned an average annual wage of $25,650, or $12.33 an hour. The best-paid 10 percent could earn $37,580 or more, the equivalent of $18.07 an hour. Meanwhile, the lowest-paid 10 percent earned $17,130 or less, the equivalent of $8.23 an hour.