High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Mississippi

Every cleaning and grounds occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Mississippi. 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 Mississippi run 13.0% below the national average (2024), so a Mississippi salary is worth about 1.15× 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 Mississippi.

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

Find cleaning jobs in Mississippi

OccupationMedian, Mississippi · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$47,130
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,050 – $76,940820
2First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$42,230
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,280 – $64,9901,550
3Pest Control Workers$37,200
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,700 – $53,890960
4Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation$35,770
High school diploma or equivalent
$24,200 – $61,720650
5Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$31,630
No formal educational credential
$24,380 – $45,3904,940
6Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$28,380
No formal educational credential
$21,490 – $38,18015,940
7Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$25,360
No formal educational credential
$19,020 – $33,7308,320

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

#	Occupation	MedianMississippi	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,130	$36,050 – $76,940	820
2	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,230	$29,280 – $64,990	1,550
3	Pest Control WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,200	$28,700 – $53,890	960
4	Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, VegetationHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,770	$24,200 – $61,720	650
5	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$31,630	$24,380 – $45,390	4,940
6	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$28,380	$21,490 – $38,180	15,940
7	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$25,360	$19,020 – $33,730	8,320

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Mississippi. 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.

More for Mississippi

Metro areas in Mississippi

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

By field in Mississippi

Without a degree

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

High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Mississippi

More for Mississippi

Metro areas in Mississippi

By field in Mississippi

Without a degree

High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in each state