Last updated: 06 May 2025

Nursery, Turf and Gardening Labour Market Dynamics

• The quarterly median earnings for the Nursery and Floriculture Production industry have been consistently lower than the national average as shown across ‘All industries’.
• Due to the seasonal nature of the Nursery and Floriculture Production industry the workforce fluctuates with demand for workers (number of jobs filled) and turnover rates (an indicator of workforce stability) generally peaking during the busy December quarter. 

 Industry dataset (economic indicators and labour market dynamics)  

Source: Linked Employer-Employee Data, Stats NZ¹

In these charts we provide two benchmarks for reference: 'agriculture, forestry and fishing' which covers all industries involved in growing crops, raising animals, growing and harvesting timber, and harvesting fish and other animals from farms or their natural habitats, and a benchmark for 'all industries' which includes every industry group in New Zealand.

Linked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) data is produced by Stats New Zealand quarterly to measure labour market dynamics. There is a lag in data availability of around 14 months due to the time it takes for the data to be completed by employers, to flow through Inland Revenue, and for Stats NZ to undertake relevant transformations and quality checks². Here, we show the most recent data available at the time of publishing.

LEED data is available at the ANZSIC ‘group’ level, which is a broader level of classification than the ANZSIC class codes used for the workforce estimates. The relevant ANZSIC groups here is 011 Nursery and Floriculture Production³ which includes 0111 Nursery Production (Under Cover), 0112 Nursery Production (Outdoors), 0113 Turf Growing, 0114 Floriculture Production (Under Cover), and 0115 Floriculture Production (Outdoors).