Housekeeper / Cleaner
🧹Cleans hotel rooms, homes and offices: changes linen, scrubs, uses chemicals and keeps order by checklist. Works for a hotel, a cleaning firm or privately.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $31.8k a year on average · +0.6% jobs by 2035 · 175,500 openings a year
Maids & housekeeping cleaners — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £24.2k median a year · 90,000 jobs
Cleaners and domestics — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
Robot vacuums handle floors, but making beds, scrubbing bathrooms and tidying varied spaces still needs a person.
Who it suits
Interests: 🔧 Making things by hand, 🤝 Helping and caring.
Key strengths: strength and stamina, manual dexterity, organisation.
Where to study
- Course On-the-job training in a few days
- Apprenticeship Housekeeping / cleaning supervisor apprenticeship (UK)
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Business.
🧗 Trained on the job in a few days. Progress to supervisor, executive housekeeper at a hotel, or your own cleaning company.
Things to know
🛢️ Dirt, noise, smells
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