Definitive Guide to Commercial Cleaning & Facilities Maintenance
Practical strategy on hiring, retaining, and building a pipeline of commercial cleaning and facilities maintenance talent. Compensation benchmarks, role-specific recruiting playbooks, and a candid look at what works.
What's inside
- Industry-specific market analysis and hiring trends
- Compensation benchmarks for the most-recruited roles
- Practical recruiting strategy you can apply this week
- Honest commentary from people who do this work every day
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Download Definitive Guide to Commercial Cleaning & Facilities MaintenanceThe commercial cleaning & facilities maintenance market this paper is about, in federal numbers.
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There were 82,787 janitorial and commercial cleaning companies in the United States in 2023, employing 1,060,817 people at an average of $32,388 a year. Against 2018 that is +14% employers, -2.2% employment, +36% average pay - five years, before inflation is taken out of any of it.
Where the work is most concentrated.
- Las Vegas, NV — 1.64× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 26,480 employed
- Syracuse, NY — 1.41× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 6,010 employed
- Albany, NY — 1.39× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 8,880 employed
- New York, NY — 1.36× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 183,030 employed
- Rochester, NY — 1.35× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 9,520 employed
- Grand Rapids, MI — 1.35× the national rate of janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 11,490 employed
Concentration is not the same as volume. A metro can be the densest market in the country for a trade and still be a small one - which is exactly the condition that makes a search hard, and is why the paper treats the two separately.
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2018 and 2023 annual averages, private-sector employers. Concentration from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
