Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 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 ($26,800) to the 90th ($47,590). 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

May 2024 employment stood at 854,910, or 0.55% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 103,480 jobs; the top three states sum to 28.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Hawaii posts a location quotient of 3.25, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $47,590, which is 1.8 times the $26,800 at the 10th, a difference of $20,790 annually. Because the mean wage ($36,180) sits above the median ($34,660), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Hawaii posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $51,530, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners stands number 42 by employment and number 794 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 23% less than its group median, and it supplies 19.0% of the group's 4,496,160 jobs. In 19 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $34,660, 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 42,610 jobs, 5.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 392 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Jackson, MS posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $24,220 a year, against $56,740 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners paycheck, gross, is $1,333 every two weeks on an annual $34,660, which is $2,888 a month and $667 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,630) to the 75th ($38,510) is worth $8,880 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $38,126 would sit between the median ($34,660) and the 75th percentile ($38,510), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,630, is $5,030 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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