Grounds Maintenance Workers
Construction, Maintenance & RepairAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Low· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03
0.000
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.12
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 97% score at or above this value.
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
Task-level exposure
Exposed tasks only| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % |
|---|---|
Advise customers on plant selection or care.37-3011 | 0.0023100.0 |
| Not observed on any surface — 26 task(s) — These tasks have no row in the source for this release. The 0 in the share row is a display-stage composition ratio; absence is what the — in the raw row states. | |
Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers. | —0 |
Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls. | —0 |
Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes. | —0 |
Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. | —0 |
Gather and remove litter. | —0 |
Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders. | —0 |
Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. | —0 |
Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds. | —0 |
Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. | —0 |
Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage. | —0 |
Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools. | —0 |
Decorate gardens with stones or plants. | —0 |
Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. | —0 |
Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chain-saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws. | —0 |
Shovel snow from walks, driveways, or parking lots and spread salt in those areas. | —0 |
Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools. | —0 |
Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features. | —0 |
Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring. | —0 |
Care for natural turf fields, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage and to support the grasses used on the fields. | —0 |
Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste. | —0 |
Haul or spread topsoil or spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place. | —0 |
Care for artificial turf fields, periodically removing the turf and replacing cushioning pads or vacuuming and disinfecting the turf after use to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. | —0 |
Plan or cultivate lawns or gardens. | —0 |
Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment. | —0 |
Mark design boundaries and paint natural or artificial turf fields with team logos or names before events. | —0 |
Build forms and mix and pour cement to form garden borders. | —0 |
Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Advise customers on plant selection or care.O*NET Task ID 9608 | 0.5 |
Mark design boundaries, and paint natural or artificial turf fields with team logos or names before events.O*NET Task ID 9613 | 0.5 |
Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.O*NET Task ID 9589 | 0.0 |
Shovel snow from walks, driveways, or parking lots, and spread salt in those areas.O*NET Task ID 9590 | 0.0 |
Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.O*NET Task ID 9591 | 0.0 |
Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.O*NET Task ID 9592 | 0.0 |
Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.O*NET Task ID 9593 | 0.0 |
Gather and remove litter.O*NET Task ID 9594 | 0.0 |
Maintain or repair tools, equipment, or structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, or benches, using hand or power tools.O*NET Task ID 9595 | 0.0 |
Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders.O*NET Task ID 9596 | 0.0 |
Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features.O*NET Task ID 9597 | 0.0 |
Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.O*NET Task ID 9598 | 0.0 |
Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.O*NET Task ID 9599 | 0.0 |
Rake, mulch, and compost leaves.O*NET Task ID 9600 | 0.0 |
Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers or foliage.O*NET Task ID 9601 | 0.0 |
Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs, and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools.O*NET Task ID 9602 | 0.0 |
Decorate gardens with stones or plants.O*NET Task ID 9603 | 0.0 |
Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring.O*NET Task ID 9604 | 0.0 |
Care for natural turf fields, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage and to support the grasses.O*NET Task ID 9605 | 0.0 |
Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste.O*NET Task ID 9606 | 0.0 |
Haul or spread topsoil, or spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place.O*NET Task ID 9607 | 0.0 |
Care for artificial turf fields, periodically removing the turf and replacing cushioning pads or vacuuming and disinfecting the turf after use to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria.O*NET Task ID 9609 | 0.0 |
Plan or cultivate lawns or gardens.O*NET Task ID 9610 | 0.0 |
Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes.O*NET Task ID 9611 | 0.0 |
Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment.O*NET Task ID 9612 | 0.0 |
Build forms and mix and pour cement to form garden borders.O*NET Task ID 9614 | 0.0 |
Operate vehicles or powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, or pruning saws.O*NET Task ID 20761 | 0.0 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page