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Cleaner / janitor — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners · Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment · Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers · Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners · Dishwashers · Recycling and Reclamation Workers · Maintenance and Repair Workers, General · Floor Sanders and Finishers
In the official classification#
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 3: medium preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 37-2011.00 (Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- CoordinationImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- Service OrientationImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingSomewhat important
- Complex Problem SolvingSomewhat important
- Operations MonitoringSomewhat important
- PersuasionSomewhat important
Knowledge
- Public Safety and SecurityImportant
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- English LanguageImportant
- Customer and Personal ServiceImportant
- TransportationSomewhat important
- Law and GovernmentSomewhat important
Work activities
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing WorkVery important
- Performing General Physical ActivitiesVery important
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsVery important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsVery important
- Getting InformationVery important
Abilities
- Trunk StrengthImportant
- Near VisionImportant
- Oral ComprehensionImportant
- Oral ExpressionImportant
- Problem SensitivityImportant
- Arm-Hand SteadinessImportant
Essential skills
- Active ListeningImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
- MonitoringImportant
- Active LearningImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 4 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.