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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Also filed here: Maid, Housekeeper, Housekeeping, Cleaner, Janitor, Domestic help
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 0.6% more of these jobs by 2035, slower than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +0.6% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $35,510 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 1.3 million in the US, with about 175,500 openings a year
The work, 10 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas46%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Monitor resources or inventories16%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Move materials, equipment, or supplies14%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Dispose of waste or debris7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Arrange displays or decorations4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,323 conversations, and it got them there 65% of the time.
Still yours: Monitor safety or security of work areas, facilities, or properties4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Sort materials or products3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Clean workpieces, finished products, or other objects3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Schedule operational activities2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain tools or equipment1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 101 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 175,500 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
- Shares 60% of the workJanitors and Cleaners13% AI does, against 0% here+2.2% by 2035 · $36,840 · No formal credential
- Shares 44% of the workDishwashers0% AI does, against 0% here-1% by 2035 · $34,810 · No formal credential
- Shares 39% of the workCleaners of Vehicles and Equipment0% AI does, against 0% here+3.9% by 2035 · $35,830 · No formal credential
The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Work front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.01, higher than 2% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 37-2012 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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