Gardener
What you will do
- Plant, water and look after plants
- Mow lawns and trim hedges
- Look after green areas all year round
- Use and maintain garden machinery
You must have
- Experience of gardening or landscaping
- Ready for physical work outdoors
- A category B driving licence
Good to have
- Training in horticulture or landscaping
- A plant protection certificate
- How to apply
- [your link], by [date]
- Your answer
- Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
Job title Gardener Where [town or region], outdoors Hours Full time, [seasonal or all year] Pay [amount] to [amount] € a month before tax Contract [Permanent or fixed term], starting [date] What you will do • Plant, water and look after plants • Mow lawns and trim hedges • Look after green areas all year round • Use and maintain garden machinery You must have • Experience of gardening or landscaping • Ready for physical work outdoors • A category B driving licence Good to have • Training in horticulture or landscaping • A plant protection certificate How to apply [your link], by [date] Your answer Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
How these figures are made
Estonia
- Gardeners and nursery growers (ISCO 6113)
- average 1,275 €, median 1,162 €
- Garden and horticultural labourers (ISCO 9214)
- average 1,208 €, median 1,051 €
Full-time equivalent gross monthly pay by workplace, all of Estonia. The median is the pay that half the people in the group earn more than and half less. Source Statistics Estonia's pay app, checked on 1 October 2026. The usual range is the middle half of people in the group, the 25th to the 75th percentile, estimated from Statistics Estonia's pay bands of 500 €. A quarter of them are recorded below the minimum wage, which full-time work may not pay (946 € a month from 1 April 2026), so the range starts at the minimum wage.
What the job pays in other countries
It pays most in Denmark, about 4.6 times the Estonian median, though the Danish figure includes pension. If you send workers abroad or hire from there, this is the comparison that matters.
| Country | Median | Usual range | In euros a month | Occupation group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EstoniaQ2 2026 | 1,162 € | 946–1,622 € | 1,162 € | Gardeners and nursery growers (6113) |
| Finland2024 | 2,491 € | not published | 2,491 € | Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers (6113) |
| Sweden2025 | 31,000 SEK | 28,300–34,200 SEK | ≈ 2,746 € | Gardeners, parks and grounds (6113, closest group) |
| Norway2025 | 44,470 NOK | 33,940–50,000 NOK | ≈ 4,106 € | Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers (6113) |
| Denmark2025 | 40,353 DKK | 36,946–44,750 DKK | ≈ 5,399 € | Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers (6113) |
| Germany2025 | 3,431 € | 2,907–4,000 € | 3,431 € | Occupations in horticulture, landscape gardening, and sports field maintenance – skilled tasks (12142) |
| United Kingdom2025 | 28,539 GBP a year | 25,664–32,248 GBP a year | ≈ 2,797 € | Gardeners and landscape gardeners (5113) |
Median pay for full-time work from each country's official source: Statistics Estonia, Statistics Finland, Statistics Sweden, Statistics Norway, Statistics Denmark, Federal Employment Agency, Office for National Statistics. The sources count slightly differently. Denmark's figure includes pension, Germany's holiday and Christmas pay, and the United Kingdom publishes a year's pay, divided by twelve here for the monthly comparison. Jobs are grouped by ISCO-08. Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom have their own classifications, matched to it, and "closest group" marks a group that is near, not the same. Where a country counts fewer than 2,000 people in a job's first group and more in its second, the second is used. The usual range is the middle half of people in the job, the 25th to the 75th percentile. Finland publishes only the 10th and 90th, so it has none. In euros at the European Central Bank rate of 2 October 2026, 1 € = 11.29 SEK, 1 € = 10.83 NOK, 1 € = 7.47 DKK and 1 € = 0.85 GBP. These figures describe the market, not the minimum a collective agreement sets.