High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Rhode Island

Every cleaning and grounds occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Rhode Island. 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 Rhode Island run 2.3% above the national average (2024), so a Rhode Island salary is worth about 0.98× 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 Rhode Island.

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

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OccupationMedian, Rhode Island · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$63,520
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,500 – $77,170800
2First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$59,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,800 – $78,800730
3Pest Control Workers$45,030
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,920 – $65,250270
4Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$44,730
No formal educational credential
$36,600 – $57,8804,040
5Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,540
No formal educational credential
$34,490 – $45,9402,710
6Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$37,310
No formal educational credential
$31,430 – $51,0507,270

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

#	Occupation	MedianRhode Island	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,520	$43,500 – $77,170	800
2	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$59,940	$47,800 – $78,800	730
3	Pest Control WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,030	$36,920 – $65,250	270
4	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$44,730	$36,600 – $57,880	4,040
5	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$37,540	$34,490 – $45,940	2,710
6	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$37,310	$31,430 – $51,050	7,270

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