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Overview
Domestic cleaners clean clients' homes by vacuuming, sweeping, washing dishes, doing laundry, dusting, scrubbing, polishing surfaces and disinfecting equipment or materials.
In job descriptions, look for home cleaning routines, surface care, laundry, dishwashing, hygiene products, client instructions, keys or access arrangements, time planning and respectful work in private rooms.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Domestic cleaning is practical work inside private homes. The day can include bathrooms, kitchens, floors, dishes, laundry, dusting, polishing and small hygiene checks, often while following room-by-room instructions from the client or service company.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include choosing cleaning products for surfaces, working efficiently without damaging belongings, handling laundry carefully and keeping track of keys, access times and agreed tasks. Some roles focus on regular weekly cleaning, move-out cleaning or extra support for households that need help with routines.
Salary context
Pay context is shaped by travel time between homes, schedule predictability, cleaning depth, whether products and equipment are supplied, and whether the work is solo or organized through a service team. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward team coordination, specialist cleaning, hotel housekeeping, facility cleaning or service planning roles where cleaning routines and client communication are central.
Good to know
Check whether the advert names private-home cleaning, travel between addresses, key handling, laundry, product use and expected time per home. This helps separate domestic cleaning from hotel rooms, offices or industrial cleaning.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific pay data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 2
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
37-2012.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETJanitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
37-2011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Domestic cleaners and helpers (9111)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/cbad55a4-c7cf-4ab6-9540-eac72b26729b |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 9111.1 |
| ISCO group | 9111 |
| Concept type | Occupation |