Where a domestic cleaner can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a domestic cleaner already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
Also known as housekeeper, chambermaid, servant, personal maid, charworker, maid, domestic worker, household worker, domestic maid, housekeeping cleaner, cleaning lady, domestic helper.
Elementary occupations 35 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: domestic housekeeper, 48%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A domestic cleaner needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- wash the dishes handling and moving
- make the beds handling and moving
- wash the laundry handling and moving
- clean household linens handling and moving
- maintain personal hygiene standards when cleaning handling and moving
- remove dust handling and moving
- restock toilet facilities' supplies handling and moving
- vacuum surfaces handling and moving
- clean toilet facilities handling and moving
- cleaning techniques services
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a domestic cleaner does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- domestic housekeeper 72% covered · difficulty 34.2
- home care aide 47% covered · difficulty 56.7
- building cleaner 46% covered · difficulty 57.6
- drapery and carpet cleaner 44% covered · difficulty 59.7
- train cleaner 42% covered · difficulty 61.2
- laundromat attendant 35% covered · difficulty 67.4
- companion 29% covered · difficulty 71.3
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Domestic cleaner is filed under Elementary occupations, ISCO major group 9. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a domestic cleaner’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.