Horticulture worker
Also called crop worker, berry picker, fruit picker
Horticulture workers carry out practical activities and assist in nurseries or greenhouses for the production of horticultural crops.
What you'd do
Garden and horticultural labourers · ILO- Loading, unloading and moving supplies, produce and equipment
- Preparing garden sites and plots using hand tools and simple machines
- Assisting with planting and transplanting flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns
- Maintaining gardens by watering, weeding and mowing lawns
- Cleaning gardens and removing rubbish
- Assisting with propagating, planting and potting seeds, bulbs and cuttings
- Tending plants by hand watering and weeding
- Harvesting and packaging plants for sale and transport
- Performing minor repairs on fixtures, buildings, equipment and fences
- Mostly outdoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Some contact with people, mostly with colleagues
- Little freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Few deadlines
- Varied tasks, little repetition
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €700 a month (Bulgaria) to €3,800 (Denmark), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among elementary occupations in the EU, women earn 9% less per hour than men. Elementary occupations · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Basic schoolingMost people start with basic schooling and learn on the job.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.12 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 9 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for garden and horticultural labourers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).