Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
SOC 37-2012 · 2024-2034
Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $43,741per year
- Projected openings
- 206,290
- Projected change
- +3.7%
- Usually needs
- No formal educational credential
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Service Orientation
- Time Management
- Coordination
- Social Perceptiveness
- Monitoring
- Speaking
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $48,141 | 14,430 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $46,938 | 10,540 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $46,629 | 11,910 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $46,180 | 1,890 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $45,220 | 16,430 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $45,189 | 1,950 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $43,976 | 1,630 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $41,260 | 47,090 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $40,777 | 3,080 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $40,027 | 17,820 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $39,893 | 3,560 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $39,173 | 10,720 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $39,091 | 18,230 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $38,597 | 3,550 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $38,412 | 2,880 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $38,175 | 1,500 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $38,052 | 2,280 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $37,929 | 400 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $37,826 | 490 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $37,661 | 2,430 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $37,322 | 2,050 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $37,116 | 400 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $37,024 | 780 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $37,024 | 1,760 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $36,746 | 1,370 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $36,725 | 1,980 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $36,622 | 2,340 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $36,571 | 3,850 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $35,995 | 860 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $35,954 | 520 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $35,954 | 2,040 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $42,131 | 372,180 | +4.9% |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $38,652 | 36,380 | +8.5% |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $47,739 | 7,030 | +7.7% |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $36,922 | 148,130 | +10.2% |
| Dishwashers | $38,829 | 124,120 | +3.6% |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $39,998 | 59,610 | +11% |
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