Domestic cleaner
Also called maid, servant, charworker
Domestic cleaners perform all necessary cleaning activities in order to clean their clients' houses. They vacuum and sweep floors, wash dishes, launder clothes, dust, scrub and polish surfaces and disinfect equipment and materials.
What you'd do
Domestic cleaners and helpers · ILO- Sweeping, vacuum cleaning, polishing and washing floors and furniture, or washing windows and other fixtures
- Washing, ironing and mending linen and other textiles
- Washing dishes
- Helping with preparation, cooking and serving of meals and refreshments
- Purchasing food and various other household supplies
- Cleaning, disinfecting and deodorising kitchens, bathrooms and toilets
- Cleaning windows and other glass surfaces
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €800 a month (Bulgaria) to €3,800 (Denmark), before tax.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see typical pay there, for people under 30, and compared with all jobs.
Among elementary occupations in the EU, women earn 9% less per hour than men. Elementary occupations · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Basic schoolingMost people start with basic schooling and learn on the job.
Pick a country at the top of the page to see where to study and the official course finders.
Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.14 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 7 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for domestic cleaners and helpers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).