As of June 2026, First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers has an AI-exposure score of 54/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
More exposed than 44% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$58,430. About 23,200 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Building & Grounds roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.
- Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
- Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.
- Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
- Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.
- Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.
- Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
- Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
- Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.
- Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.
- Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
- Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.
- Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.
- Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
- Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.
- Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
- Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
- Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (80%).
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