Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Tasks Include:
- Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
- Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
- Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.
- Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.
- Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.
- Dust and polish furniture and equipment.
- Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
- Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
- Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +8.4%
National: +9.4%
Education
Less than a High School Diploma
Job Zone:
One: Little or No Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Mid Range ($28,000 - $35,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$29,960.00
State
$28,150.00
Regional
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Description
Career Cluster: | Hospitality & Tourism |
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.
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Education
Required Level of Education
- Less than a High School Diploma = 44.60%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 35.51%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 6.67%
- Bachelor's Degree = 5.88%
- Post-Doctoral Training = 4.97%
- Some College Courses = 2.37%
Related Work Experience
- None = 48.19%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 14.68%
- Up to and including 1 month = 9.96%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 9.61%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 6.80%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 5.73%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 5.03%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Up to and including 1 month = 59.27%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 12.53%
- None = 8.21%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 7.50%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 7.45%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 5.03%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 42.27%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 25.11%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 12.38%
- None or short demonstration = 10.51%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 6.53%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 3.20%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
- Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.
- Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.
- Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.
- Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.
- Dust and polish furniture and equipment.
- Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
- Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
- Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Hang draperies and dust window blinds.
- Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers.
- Observe precautions required to protect hotel and guest property and report damage, theft, and found articles to supervisors.
- Wash dishes and clean kitchens, cooking utensils, and silverware.
- Remove debris from driveways, garages, and swimming pool areas.
- Sort clothing and other articles, load washing machines, and iron and fold dried items.
- Run errands, such as taking laundry to the cleaners and buying groceries.
- Sort, count, and mark clean linens and store them in linen closets.
- Polish silver accessories and metalwork, such as fixtures and fittings.
- Prepare rooms for meetings and arrange decorations, media equipment, and furniture for social or business functions.
- Request repair services and wait for repair workers to arrive.
- Replace light bulbs.
- Assign duties to other staff and give instructions regarding work methods and routines.
- Answer telephones and doorbells.
- Deliver television sets, ironing boards, baby cribs, and rollaway beds to guests' rooms.
- Move and arrange furniture and turn mattresses.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Vacuum cleaners (Backpack vacuums)
- Carpet cleaning equipment (Carpet shampooers)
- Carpet cleaning equipment (Carpet steamers)
- Cleaning brushes
- Cleaning scrapers
- Ironing machines or presses (Clothes ironing equipment)
- Commercial use dishwashers (Commercial dishwashers)
- Masks or accessories (Dust masks)
- Dust mops
- Cleaning dusters (Dusters)
- Floor polishers (Floor burnishers)
- Floor scrubbers (Floor scrubbing machines)
- Clothes dryers (Household dryers)
- Laundry type washing machines (Household washers)
- Pushcarts (Housekeeping carts)
- Clothes dryers (Industrial dryers)
- Sewing machines (Industrial sewing machines)
- Vacuum cleaners (Industrial vacuum cleaners)
- Laundry type washing machines (Light commercial washing machines)
- Mop wringer (Mop wringers)
- Special purpose telephones (Multi-line telephone systems)
- Personal computers
- Floor polishers (Power floor buffers)
- Pressure or steam cleaners (Pressure washers)
- Facial shields (Protective face shields)
- Brooms (Push brooms)
- Razor knives (Safety blades)
- Goggles (Safety goggles)
- Scouring pads
- Sponges
- Hand sprayers (Spray bottles)
- Squeegees or washers (Squeegees)
- Vacuum cleaners (Standing HEPA vacuums)
- Steam pressing machines (Steam pressers)
- Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam-operated sterilizers)
- Ladders (Step ladders)
- Cleaning brushes (Tile brushes)
- Toilet brushes
- Trash bags
- Protective gloves (Vinyl gloves)
- Laundry type washing machines (Washer extractors)
- Wet mops
- Wet or dry combination vacuum cleaners (Wet-dry vacuums)
- Medical staff scrubs (Work scrubs)
Technologies Include:
- Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Facilities management software
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS software
- Inventory management software
- Inventory tracking software
- Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
- Computerized bed control system software
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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76.00 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
55.50 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
54.50 | Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
53.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
50.00 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
50.00 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
53.00 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
50.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
50.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
50.00 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
50.00 | Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
50.00 | Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. |
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
71.25 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
60.00 | Assisting and Caring for Others | Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
57.75 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
57.75 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
57.25 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
54.25 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
51.50 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
83.00 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
82.25 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
81.00 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
81.00 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
79.00 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
78.75 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
76.25 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
75.75 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
75.75 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
70.50 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
66.50 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
64.00 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
60.75 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
52.50 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
52.00 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
49.75 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
72.17 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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95.80 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
95.40 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
89.80 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
89.80 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
88.20 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
85.80 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
81.80 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
80.80 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
78.20 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
78.00 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
75.20 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
74.80 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
72.60 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
71.40 | Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling? |
66.80 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
65.80 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
64.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
63.40 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
60.20 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
59.40 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
58.00 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
55.80 | Exposed to Disease or Infections | How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections? |
54.80 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
53.40 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
52.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
52.00 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
50.40 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
49.60 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
- Examples
- These occupations involve following instructions and helping others. Examples include food preparation workers, dishwashers, floor sanders and finishers, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, logging equipment operators, and baristas.
- Education
- Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $22,520.00 | $29,960.00 | $35,480.00 |
Virginia | $22,880.00 | $28,150.00 | $31,990.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $29,578.34 | $32,335.60 | $37,618.08 |
Bay Consortium | $24,952.25 | $29,871.00 | $33,274.20 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $24,297.95 | $28,429.66 | $31,601.86 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $23,914.36 | $24,362.75 | $28,250.93 |
Crater Area | $23,943.62 | $25,879.35 | $29,484.27 |
Greater Peninsula | $24,145.35 | $27,789.99 | $30,769.88 |
Hampton Roads | $24,199.70 | $27,832.84 | $31,077.17 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $23,914.36 | $24,065.91 | $28,369.03 |
Northern Virginia | $29,011.84 | $32,239.44 | $37,069.35 |
Piedmont Workforce | $25,527.11 | $29,928.48 | $34,073.78 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $23,915.40 | $25,609.69 | $29,127.86 |
Southwestern Virginia | $23,914.36 | $24,298.99 | $27,911.23 |
West Piedmont | $23,957.21 | $24,965.84 | $28,772.48 |
Western Virginia | $23,914.36 | $24,887.45 | $29,042.15 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 1,237,400 | 1,353,800 | +9.4% |
Virginia | 29,503 | 31,992 | +8.4% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | 1,243 | 1,401 | +12.7% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 4,083 | 4,453 | +9.1% |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | 1,917 | 2,040 | +6.4% |
Hampton Roads | 3,199 | 3,382 | +5.7% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 955 | 981 | +2.7% |
Northern Virginia | 6,676 | 7,469 | +11.9% |
Piedmont Workforce | 2,366 | 2,453 | +3.7% |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | 267 | 238 | -10.9% |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | 1,432 | 1,429 | -0.2% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Bed Maker
- Bunk House Worker
- Cabin Cleaner
- Care Taker
- Caretaker
- Chambermaid
- Charwoman
- Cleaner
- Cleaning Maid
- Cleaning Matron
- Cleaning Porter
- Cleaning Team Member
- Commercial, Residential, or Industrial Housekeeper
- Cottage Attendant
- Curtain Worker
- Day Worker
- Dining Room Maid
- Domestic Helper
- Domestic Laundry Worker
- Domestic Maid
- Dormitory Maid
- Downstairs Maid
- Drapery Worker
- Environmental Services Aide
- Environmental Services Worker
- Executive Housekeeper
- Furniture Duster
- General House Worker
- Guest Room Attendant
- Hall Worker
- Home Housekeeper
- Hospital Cleaner
- Hotel Maid
- House Cleaner
- House Worker
- Housecleaner
- Household Worker
- Housekeeper
- Housekeeper, Cleaning, Cooking
- Housekeeping Aide
- Housekeeping Attendant
- Housekeeping Cleaner
- Housekeeping Department Worker
- Housekeeping Laundry Worker
- Housekeeping Staff
- Housemaid
- Ironer
- Linen Folder
- Linen Keeper
- Linen Room Custodian
- Linen Room Worker
- Linen Worker
- Lodging Facilities Attendant
- Lodginghouse Keeper
- Maid Housekeeper
- Maid, Cleaning, Cooking
- Motel Maid
- Parlor Maid
- Rest Room Maid
- Restrooms or Lounges Maid
- Room Cleaner
- Room Maid
- Second Butler
- Section Housekeeper
- Service Cleaner
- Shower Maid
- Upstairs Maid
- Visiting Housekeeper
- Ward Maid
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