Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in food service, cleaning, and personal care, not always this occupation's tasks.

Direct evidence

Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.

• BEHAVIOR Challenge 2025by Stanford UniversityTask level · Q-score (held-out test)

  0.26Robot Learning Collective · 14 Nov 2025

  Emerging

Also relevant

These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.

• RoboArenaby UC Berkeley and Stanford UniversityTask level · Leaderboard score (Elo-style)

  1735 EloDreamZero (dreaming_zebra) · 24 Sep 2026

  Unrated
• RoboChallenge Table30by Dexmal and Hugging FaceTask level · Success rate

  64.3%Era0 · May 2026

  Strong

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

• Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.
• Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws.
• Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
• Gather and remove litter.
• Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.
• Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.
• Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage.
• Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.
• Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools.
• Rake, mulch, and compost leaves.
• Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features.