Occupation

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.

29 AI exposure

47 Human advantage

65 Market demand

37 AI leverage

Is Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners a safe career from AI?

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners scores 29 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 47. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 65 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners pay

The median wage is $35,930 a year. The lower quarter earns under $30,830 and the upper quarter over $41,650. About 2,199,900 people do this work in the United States.

Where Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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