Building Cleaning Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Building Cleaning Workers, All Other offer sit among all 16,370 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

With 16,370 jobs nationally, Building Cleaning Workers, All Other make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 3,260 of those jobs, the top three states hold 34.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Nevada (location quotient 4.80, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $31,000 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($61,640) is 2.0 times the 10th percentile ($30,640), a gap of $31,000 a year. The mean of $44,150 sitting above the median of $42,360 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Iowa posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $58,550, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Building Cleaning Workers, All Other stands number 595 by employment and number 670 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations, the group median wage is $44,730 across 10 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 5% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 4,496,160 jobs. In 10 of the 27 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $42,360, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 850 jobs, 5.2% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $41,470 a year, against $56,070 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,530 a month before tax, $1,629 biweekly, $815 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,610) to the 75th ($48,400) is worth $12,790 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $46,596 would sit between the median ($42,360) and the 75th percentile ($48,400), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,610, is $6,750 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

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