Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for maids and housekeeping cleaners. Best paid: Hawaii, at $51,600. Tax does not change that. Best off: Nevada, at $40,816 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Hawaii's $51,600 median for maids and housekeeping cleaners survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: Nevada takes the top position at $40,816. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$35,510
People doing it
860,670
Highest paid
$51,600
HI
Best off, really
$40,816
NV, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$27,640
Highest tenth
$48,570
Lowest, really
$24,712
MS
States with data
51
National average
$37,080
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
96.98%
NV, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Geography does a lot of the work in this job. Pay roughly doubles between the lowest state and the highest. Tax and prices narrow that gap. They come nowhere near closing it — the real range is still $24,712 up to $40,816.
- Roughly 860,670 people hold this job nationally, earning $35,510 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $35,510 in the middle.
- The nominal spread for maids and housekeeping cleaners approaches a factor of two across states. Deflating for tax and price level compresses it substantially but leaves a real range of $24,712 to $40,816, indicating that most of the dispersion is real purchasing power rather than compensation for local costs.
- 860,670 are employed nationally in maids and housekeeping cleaners, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 51 jurisdictions report maids and housekeeping cleaners, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,570 |
| This salary | $35,510 |
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 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
The national median for this job
$35,510around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $27,640 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $35,510 |
| Top tenth | $48,570 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $25,360 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Hawaii · $51,600 |
| Spread | $26,240 |
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 | $29,660 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $30,522 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV | $46,550 | $39,583 | $40,816 |
| HI | $51,600 | $41,159 | $37,896 |
| ND | $35,050 | $30,343 | $34,258 |
| WA | $42,180 | $36,072 | $33,227 |
| MT | $35,740 | $29,974 | $33,214 |
| VT | $37,680 | $31,450 | $32,545 |
| ME | $37,630 | $31,144 | $32,075 |
| WI | $35,530 | $29,830 | $32,042 |
| NE | $34,170 | $28,784 | $31,850 |
| NY | $41,950 | $34,219 | $31,794 |
| ID | $34,560 | $28,971 | $31,688 |
| AK | $37,370 | $32,207 | $31,664 |
| CA | $42,660 | $35,615 | $31,635 |
| MN | $37,470 | $31,101 | $31,601 |
| DC | $42,260 | $34,766 | $31,376 |
| IA | $32,620 | $27,762 | $31,276 |
| UT | $36,270 | $29,709 | $31,272 |
| MO | $33,670 | $28,589 | $31,155 |
| CO | $37,560 | $31,415 | $30,987 |
| RI | $37,540 | $31,356 | $30,919 |
| WY | $31,870 | $27,788 | $30,587 |
| MI | $34,650 | $28,799 | $30,578 |
| OH | $32,170 | $27,860 | $30,345 |
| NH | $36,920 | $31,845 | $30,229 |
| IL | $36,380 | $29,755 | $30,100 |
| AZ | $35,640 | $30,328 | $29,997 |
| SD | $29,950 | $26,245 | $29,791 |
| NJ | $37,980 | $32,085 | $29,468 |
| MA | $38,950 | $31,849 | $29,425 |
| CT | $36,170 | $30,225 | $29,150 |
| TN | $30,850 | $26,968 | $29,150 |
| NM | $30,480 | $26,304 | $29,102 |
| PA | $33,870 | $28,355 | $29,082 |
| IN | $31,420 | $26,529 | $28,778 |
| KY | $30,880 | $26,029 | $28,771 |
| KS | $31,100 | $25,722 | $28,591 |
| DE | $34,150 | $28,291 | $28,504 |
| FL | $33,860 | $29,387 | $28,406 |
| OR | $37,590 | $29,645 | $28,308 |
| MD | $35,500 | $29,382 | $28,261 |
| NC | $31,310 | $26,597 | $28,253 |
| SC | $30,260 | $26,190 | $28,108 |
| VA | $33,820 | $28,170 | $27,961 |
| AR | $27,960 | $24,056 | $27,808 |
| OK | $28,620 | $24,389 | $27,625 |
| WV | $28,090 | $24,075 | $26,818 |
| TX | $29,660 | $26,012 | $26,768 |
| LA | $26,600 | $23,103 | $26,151 |
| GA | $29,770 | $25,213 | $26,074 |
| AL | $27,480 | $23,109 | $25,685 |
| MS | $25,360 | $21,572 | $24,712 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for maids and housekeeping cleaners, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $35,510 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for maids and housekeeping cleaners, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Hawaii, at $41,159.
- Levelling out prices for maids and housekeeping cleaners is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Mississippi sits at the bottom on $24,712.
- All wage figures for maids and housekeeping cleaners are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $35,510. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Retained-pay figures for maids and housekeeping cleaners model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $41,159, which leads in Hawaii.
- The price deflation applied to maids and housekeeping cleaners uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Mississippi at $24,712. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Mississippi anchors the bottom at $24,712 — and the two source series are dated independently.