High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Texas

Every cleaning and grounds occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Texas. 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 Texas run 2.9% below the national average (2024), so a Texas salary is worth about 1.03× 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 Texas.

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

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OccupationMedian, Texas · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$47,630
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,000 – $72,59011,260
2First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$41,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$27,200 – $63,44013,370
3Pest Control Workers$37,660
High school diploma or equivalent
$29,550 – $59,6309,470
4Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$36,740
No formal educational credential
$28,810 – $47,91063,430
5Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$33,010
No formal educational credential
$23,450 – $45,950184,840
6Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$29,660
No formal educational credential
$22,150 – $37,30063,110

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

#	Occupation	MedianTexas	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,630	$37,000 – $72,590	11,260
2	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$41,660	$27,200 – $63,440	13,370
3	Pest Control WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,660	$29,550 – $59,630	9,470
4	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$36,740	$28,810 – $47,910	63,430
5	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$33,010	$23,450 – $45,950	184,840
6	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$29,660	$22,150 – $37,300	63,110

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

High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Texas

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