Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 43,160.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.
$46,550 in Boston buys what $43,000 buys across the country as a whole.
Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston This page | $46,550 | $43,000 | 108.3 | — |
| Barnstable Town | $44,820 | $45,600 | 98.4 | +6.0% |
| Worcester | $41,030 | $40,000 | 102.5 | −6.9% |
| Amherst Town | $40,600 | $40,500 | 100.2 | −5.8% |
| Pittsfield | $39,830 | $41,900 | 95.1 | −2.6% |
| Springfield | $39,170 | $40,800 | 96.1 | −5.2% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 43,160 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 37-2011, Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners. Mapped to our taxonomy as janitors-and-cleaners-except-maids-and-housekeeping-cleaners.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.