First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($34,390) to the 90th ($74,190). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 174,660 people in May 2024, 0.11% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 16,130 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Nevada, whose location quotient of 2.05 says this work is 2.05 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $39,800 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($74,190) is 2.2 times the 10th percentile ($34,390), a gap of $39,800 a year. The mean of $51,170 sitting above the median of $47,520 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 16,130 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Rhode Island would lead at $61,860. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers stands number 181 by employment and number 578 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 6% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.9% of the group's 4,496,160 jobs. In 26 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $47,520, 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 10,770 jobs, 6.2% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $26,770 a year, against $72,340 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. 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: $3,960 a month before tax, $1,828 biweekly, $914 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,600) to the 75th ($60,330) is worth $21,730 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 $52,272 would sit between the median ($47,520) and the 75th percentile ($60,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,600, is $8,920 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers, Pest Control Workers, Tree Trimmers and Pruners, Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation, Building Cleaning Workers, All Other, Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.