Landscape Contractor Business Outlook

Maintenance continues holding its own, and now installation jobs, pricing, profits and hiring all expected to pick up next year.


Where growing landscape companies will find reliable employees remains to be seen. One contractor responding to the survey put it this way: “Legal and reliable labor (is a big issue). Finding American labor that has a driver's license, is not drunk or committed felonies, etc., is very hard. When you do find them, they lie about not drinking or doing drugs, then they steal from you. Just trying to find people that will perform a labor function at a reasonable rate is tough.”­