- The middle half earn between $18.30 and $23.25 an hour.
- Only 6 states pay landscapers more at the median.
- Maine pays more than its only neighbor, New Hampshire.
- BLS counts about 6,410 landscapers on payrolls in Maine.
- At the state median wage, a landscaping business needs to bill about $109.40 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Landscaper pay in Maine, bottom to top
BLS calls this group landscaping and groundskeeping workers. It covers lawn crews, planting and hardscape helpers and groundskeepers at schools, parks and offices.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $16.73 | $34,800 | $14.98 |
| 25th percentile | $18.30 | $38,070 | $17.40 |
| Median | $22.10 | $45,970 | $18.82 |
| 75th percentile | $23.25 | $48,370 | $22.52 |
| 90th percentile | $27.70 | $57,620 | $27.28 |
| Average (mean) | $21.70 | $45,140 | $20.33 |
Pay is bunched up in Maine. The top tenth earn $27.70 an hour or more, about 1.7 times the $16.73 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 1.8 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
Both ends of the scale beat the national figures: $16.73 against $14.98 at the bottom tenth, and $27.70 against $27.28 at the top.
The average wage ($21.70) is a little under the median, so the low end of the range stretches further than the high end in Maine.
How Maine compares with other states
Over a full year, the Maine median of $45,970 is $6,820 more than the national $39,150.
In the state ranking, Maine sits 7th, between Vermont ($22.23) and Hawaii ($22.08). The range runs from $15.21 in Mississippi to $23.46 in the District of Columbia.
Maine pays landscapers more than any of its neighboring states (New Hampshire). Someone working near the border can earn more by taking work on this side of it.
These are wages as paid, not adjusted for what it costs to live in Maine. Rent, home prices and taxes decide how far a higher wage goes.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Maine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | $22.10 | $45,970 | |
| New Hampshire | $21.58 | $44,890 | −$0.52 an hour |
How many landscapers work in Maine
About 6,410 landscapers work on payrolls in Maine, 0.7% of the 952,640 nationwide, the 38th largest count among the states.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 10.0 of every 1,000 jobs in Maine, 1.6 times the national share.
What a landscaping business in Maine should charge
Higher wages in Maine go straight into the price. Take a landscaping business in Maine paying the state median of $22.10 and run it through the labor rate calculator with its starting numbers (40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit).
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $22.10 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $49,485 |
| Break-even rate | ($49,485 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $92.99 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $92.99 ÷ 0.85 | $109.40 |
That is $109.40 per billable hour, 5 times the wage, and $5.76 more than the $103.64 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $23.25 in Maine, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $111.42.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $18.30, the rate only drops to $102.73.
At this wage, overhead is most of the price: $60 of every billed hour goes to it before anyone is paid. Spreading the same overhead over more billable hours, with a second person or less drive time, brings the rate down fastest.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Working as a landscaper in Maine
- Running the business. Quotes, invoices, booking and your website in one place: how landscaping companies run on Koira.
- Getting found. The free Koira report checks how your business shows up in search and on maps against shops near you.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 37-3011, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: landscaper salary by state.