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Tree Trimmers & Pruners

SOC 37-3013

Trim and remove trees around power lines, roads, and homes.

The job
Median pay
$51k
$45k to $64k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+4.2% projected
Openings a year
8k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
4th pct
More exposed than 4% of occupations · modeled estimate · 6th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
52/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California9,6100.51.5×$63k
Texas4,4600.30.9×$40k
New York3,7500.41.1×$62k
Pennsylvania3,1600.51.5×$58k
Florida2,7700.30.8×$46k
Massachusetts2,0900.61.6×$63k
Indiana1,8500.61.6×$46k
Michigan1,8400.41.2×$58k
Oregon1,6100.82.3×$75k
New Jersey1,5710.41.0×$72k~
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
North Carolina1,5600.30.9×$48k
Ohio1,4600.30.7×$50k
West Virginia1,4202.05.7×$49k
Colorado1,2000.41.2×$51k
Wisconsin1,1900.41.1×$58k
Arizona1,1140.31.0×$51k~
Virginia1,0700.30.7×$49k
Georgia1,0300.20.6×$47k
Kentucky1,0200.51.4×$44k
Minnesota9980.30.9×$77k~
Missouri9700.30.9×$61k
Alabama8900.41.2×$42k
Oklahoma8600.51.4×$47k
Maryland7300.30.7×$47k
Tennessee7100.20.6×$47k
Illinois7000.10.3×$64k
Washington7000.20.6×$64k
South Carolina4300.20.5×$44k
Vermont4301.44.0×$62k
Kansas3900.30.8×$48k
Iowa3800.20.7×$43k
Nebraska3610.41.0×$39k~
Connecticut3600.20.6×$49k
Idaho3510.41.1×$44k~
New Mexico3360.41.1×$47k~
New Hampshire3300.51.4×$60k
Arkansas2900.20.6×$46k
Washington DC2750.41.1×$53k~
Maine2740.41.2×$46k~
South Dakota2700.61.7×$50k
Mississippi2600.20.6×$42k
Montana2300.41.3×$60k
Delaware2040.41.2×$49k~
Utah2000.10.3×$57k
Nevada1900.10.3×$51k
Hawaii1700.30.8×$57k
North Dakota1590.41.0×$45k~
Wyoming1310.51.3×$46k~
Louisiana1200.10.2×$47k
Alaska1170.41.0×$55k~
Rhode Island1100.20.6×$61k

Top metro areas

  1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,150 jobs · $60k median
  2. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX2,120 jobs · $40k median
  3. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,580 jobs · $63k median
  4. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA1,270 jobs · $60k median
  5. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA1,160 jobs · $76k median
  6. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,060 jobs · $63k median
  7. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA990 jobs · $76k median
  8. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX800 jobs · $40k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.