High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in California

Every cleaning and grounds occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in California. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single cleaning and grounds job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in California run 10.7% above the national average (2024), so a California salary is worth about 0.90× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order. To see where a job pays a real premium, use jobs that pay more in California.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, California · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$63,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$44,330 – $98,59014,850
2Tree Trimmers and Pruners$62,550
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,750 – $92,2709,610
3First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$61,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$40,870 – $82,80018,060
4Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$45,560
No formal educational credential
$36,780 – $61,200106,180
5Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$42,660
No formal educational credential
$35,680 – $63,450103,430
6Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$41,090
No formal educational credential
$35,610 – $58,950234,240

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianCalifornia	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,270	$44,330 – $98,590	14,850
2	Tree Trimmers and PrunersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,550	$35,750 – $92,270	9,610
3	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,470	$40,870 – $82,800	18,060
4	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$45,560	$36,780 – $61,200	106,180
5	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$42,660	$35,680 – $63,450	103,430
6	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$41,090	$35,610 – $58,950	234,240

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in California. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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Pay varies more between metros than between states — the spread inside one state is often wider than the gap between two.

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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in California to rank honestly.

High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in California

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