High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in New Jersey

Every cleaning and grounds occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in New Jersey. 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 New Jersey run 8.8% above the national average (2024), so a New Jersey salary is worth about 0.92× 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 New Jersey.

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

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OccupationMedian, New Jersey · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$68,580
High school diploma or equivalent
$52,000 – $94,2002,830
2First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$55,170
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,820 – $80,2305,600
3Pest Control Workers$48,780
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,830 – $59,6802,270
4Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$41,360
No formal educational credential
$35,450 – $55,05030,470
5Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,980
No formal educational credential
$32,760 – $49,24018,360
6Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,630
No formal educational credential
$32,330 – $50,66067,660

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

#	Occupation	MedianNew Jersey	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$68,580	$52,000 – $94,200	2,830
2	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$55,170	$39,820 – $80,230	5,600
3	Pest Control WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,780	$39,830 – $59,680	2,270
4	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$41,360	$35,450 – $55,050	30,470
5	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$37,980	$32,760 – $49,240	18,360
6	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$37,630	$32,330 – $50,660	67,660

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in New Jersey. 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 New Jersey to rank honestly.

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