First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
What the pay figures show
- Washington pays this job the most, $63,550. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and North Dakota wins, at $51,639. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers, Washington leads both nominally at $63,550 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts North Dakota first at $51,639. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$49,100
People doing it
178,760
Highest paid
$63,550
WA
Best off, really
$51,639
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$35,520
Highest tenth
$76,430
Lowest, really
$35,194
DC
States with data
51
National average
$53,320
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $35,194 and $51,639. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- About 178,760 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $49,100. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $49,100. Nothing is missing.
- Wages for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $35,194 to $51,639. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- With 178,760 workers, first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- Coverage for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,430 |
| This salary | $49,100 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
The national median for this job
$49,100around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $35,520 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $49,100 |
| Top tenth | $76,430 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $37,500 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $63,550 |
| Spread | $26,050 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $41,660 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $42,871 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $54,210 | $45,738 | $51,639 |
| RI | $63,520 | $51,256 | $50,543 |
| VT | $59,340 | $48,054 | $49,727 |
| WA | $63,550 | $53,242 | $49,043 |
| AK | $56,690 | $47,730 | $46,926 |
| ME | $55,810 | $44,576 | $45,909 |
| SD | $46,860 | $39,832 | $45,215 |
| IN | $50,570 | $41,351 | $44,857 |
| NY | $60,580 | $48,182 | $44,768 |
| WY | $47,840 | $40,619 | $44,711 |
| NE | $48,870 | $39,927 | $44,179 |
| UT | $52,420 | $41,967 | $44,175 |
| NH | $55,200 | $46,533 | $44,172 |
| CA | $61,470 | $49,690 | $44,137 |
| CO | $55,100 | $44,737 | $44,127 |
| CT | $57,200 | $45,744 | $44,117 |
| KS | $49,780 | $39,689 | $44,116 |
| MA | $59,760 | $47,529 | $43,912 |
| IA | $47,200 | $38,923 | $43,849 |
| MN | $53,510 | $43,060 | $43,753 |
| NV | $50,080 | $42,419 | $43,740 |
| MT | $48,240 | $39,430 | $43,693 |
| ID | $48,390 | $39,350 | $43,041 |
| WI | $49,070 | $40,042 | $43,011 |
| TN | $46,800 | $39,784 | $43,003 |
| HI | $59,060 | $46,589 | $42,896 |
| OH | $46,110 | $38,678 | $42,127 |
| KY | $45,860 | $37,541 | $41,496 |
| NC | $47,490 | $38,952 | $41,377 |
| NJ | $55,170 | $45,009 | $41,337 |
| NM | $44,840 | $37,248 | $41,210 |
| MO | $45,660 | $37,659 | $41,040 |
| OR | $56,210 | $42,977 | $41,039 |
| DE | $50,750 | $40,708 | $41,014 |
| SC | $45,320 | $37,905 | $40,681 |
| MI | $46,770 | $38,023 | $40,371 |
| IL | $49,410 | $39,580 | $40,038 |
| AZ | $48,610 | $40,425 | $39,984 |
| AL | $44,370 | $35,935 | $39,941 |
| MS | $42,230 | $34,515 | $39,539 |
| PA | $46,920 | $38,440 | $39,425 |
| VA | $48,660 | $39,241 | $38,949 |
| GA | $46,070 | $37,497 | $38,777 |
| MD | $49,550 | $40,003 | $38,478 |
| WV | $41,450 | $34,396 | $38,315 |
| OK | $40,460 | $33,369 | $37,797 |
| FL | $45,770 | $38,956 | $37,656 |
| LA | $38,640 | $32,454 | $36,736 |
| TX | $41,660 | $35,654 | $36,690 |
| AR | $37,500 | $31,382 | $36,277 |
| DC | $47,950 | $38,997 | $35,194 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $49,100.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $53,242.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — the District of Columbia anchors the bottom at $35,194. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $49,100, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Take-home calculations for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $53,242, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms figures for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.