Horticulture

What the Numbers Say About Horticulture

0.0% of the federal civilian workforce (2,289,472 employees total, March 2025) works in the Horticulture occupation (OPM code 437): 119 people, headcount up 0.8% versus the prior period, though at this small a headcount, year-to-year swings can reflect a handful of hires or departures rather than a broad hiring trend.

The average salary for Horticulture is $109,355 per year, placing it 0.5% below the overall federal civilian average of $109,869. Salaries moved up by 1.6% from the prior period, a modest shift, consistent with routine locality pay and grade-level movement. Average length of service in this role is 14.4 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career.

Horticulture sits inside the Biological Sciences Group family (code 4), which contains 31 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Horticulture postings should also review these sibling occupations, since federal hiring managers often cross-post positions across closely related codes when recruitment is difficult. All figures here come directly from OPM FedScope Employment Cubes, the same official source referenced in federal workforce planning, budget justifications, and GAO reports.

Horticulture makes up 0.2% of the 69,668 employees across the Biological Sciences Group family, ranking #27 of 31 occupations in that family by headcount.