High paying cleaning and grounds jobs in Delaware with no degree

The best paid cleaning and grounds occupations in Delaware that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Delaware run 0.2% below the national average (2024), so a Delaware salary is worth about 1.00× 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 Delaware.

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

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OccupationMedian, Delaware · Employed

1First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers$74,340
High school diploma or equivalent
$48,250 – $89,660250
2First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$50,750
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,400 – $72,810790
3Pest Control Workers$45,300
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,200 – $74,090300
4Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers$37,350
No formal educational credential
$32,910 – $46,6204,130
5Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$35,320
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $48,5309,220
6Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners$34,150
No formal educational credential
$31,200 – $38,9401,820

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

#	Occupation	MedianDelaware	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,340	$48,250 – $89,660	250
2	First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,750	$35,400 – $72,810	790
3	Pest Control WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$45,300	$31,200 – $74,090	300
4	Landscaping and Groundskeeping WorkersNo formal educational credential	$37,350	$32,910 – $46,620	4,130
5	Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$35,320	$31,200 – $48,530	9,220
6	Maids and Housekeeping CleanersNo formal educational credential	$34,150	$31,200 – $38,940	1,820

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