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Occupation

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.

28 AI exposure
44 Human advantage
62 Market demand
35 AI leverage

Is Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners a safe career from AI?

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners scores 28 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 44. 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 62 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 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners pay

The median wage is $34,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $29,630 and the upper quarter over $38,510. About 854,910 people do this work in the United States.

Where 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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