Grounds Maintenance Worker I

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

147 employees hold this title in Parks & Recreation Department. Median total compensation for the role is $71,201, above the department median of $25,749.

Employees: 147
Total payroll: $9.5M
Role median: $71,201
Agency median: $25,749
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$840$106,469+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 147 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Grounds Maintenance Worker I pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers — about 27,860 people — is $44,650. Parks & Recreation Department pays a median base salary of $48,904 for this role, 10% above that figure — about the 74th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Parks & Recreation Department sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$37,120

$38,240

$44,650

$49,030

$59,430

Parks & Recreation Department median · $48,904

The bar is the range of annual wages for Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Parks & Recreation Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers — about 952,640 people — is $39,150. Parks & Recreation Department’s median base salary is 25% above that national figure, about the 78th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$31,150

$36,190

$39,150

$46,830

$56,730

Parks & Recreation Department median · $48,904

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 204 of 252 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Parks & Recreation Department is $85,715, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across Los Angeles County

Grounds Maintenance Worker I is held in 2 Los Angeles County departments. In Parks & Recreation Department, the median of $71,201 ranks #2 of 2.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Beaches & Harbors

$78,378 · 82

Median total compensation for the Grounds Maintenance Worker I role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Record list