The Datum Report

Occupation 6240 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors

Half of full-time cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors in the UK earn more than £28,605 a year, and half earn less.

Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors manage and supervise cleaning and other housekeeping tasks within private households, hotels, schools, hostels and other non-private households, and in offices and other premises.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic requirements, but GCSEs/S grades and/or relevant work experience may be needed in some instances. BTEC certificates and diplomas, NVQs/SVQs and degree level courses are available in relevant areas.

What the work involves

• recruits or participates in the selection process for cleaning and housekeeping staff and takes charge of staff training
• assigns duties and responsibilities to staff and oversees working rotas
• supervises the activities of cleaners and other housekeeping staff and inspects work undertaken
• oversees the provision of cleaning and housekeeping supplies
• arranges for replacement of broken, defective tools and handles arrangements for repairs to fixtures and fittings
• manages budget for cleaning and housekeeping supplies and keeps record of expenditure

Also called

Butler · Cleaner-in-charge · Cleaning supervisor · Guest service manager · Hotel services supervisor · House keeper (hotel)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 8 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

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