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Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 43,160.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 37-2011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$46,550 · 50th
$35,68010th
$38,15025th
$46,55050th
$49,77075th
$60,57090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Boston
Boston This page$46,550$43,000108.3
Barnstable Town$44,820$45,60098.4+6.0%
Worcester$41,030$40,000102.5−6.9%
Amherst Town$40,600$40,500100.2−5.8%
Pittsfield$39,830$41,90095.1−2.6%
Springfield$39,170$40,80096.1−5.2%

Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

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.

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