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Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers pay in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ and Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers is $38,470 per year in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ. It is $49,030 per year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ is 21.5% below Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 37-3011 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 1,840 wage and salary jobs in Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ and 15,120 in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings