# US employment in services to buildings rose from 2,215,800 in November 2022 to 2,307,100 in August 2026, within 0.5% of the series high

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20260801-cleaner-1
Date: 2026-08-01 · Stage: Labour impact
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/cleaner

## Scope

NAICS 5617, services to buildings and dwellings, all employees, seasonally adjusted. This is the industry that employs contract cleaners, and it also contains landscaping and pest control, so it is wider than this occupation. The more important limit is who it cannot see: cleaners employed directly by a building, a hospital or a school are counted in that employer's industry rather than here, and in several markets that is a large share. A flat or rising series is therefore evidence that contract cleaning has not shrunk, not that cleaning headcount overall has held.

## Source

- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES series CES6056170001 (services to buildings and dwellings) — https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES6056170001 (primary source)

## What this means

Contract cleaning employment has not shrunk; it rose to within 0.5% of its series high. Both facts sit on this page, and together they support the claim it makes: the machines took the easy hectares and the buildings still need the hard square metres, so the hours moved in composition rather than disappearing.

## What it does not show yet

It counts contract cleaners only. Anyone employed directly by a hospital, a school or a building sits in that employer's industry instead, and in several markets that is a large share — so this is evidence about the outsourced market and not about cleaning headcount overall.

## How to verify it yourself

Ask whoever holds your site's contract whether the hours in it have changed since any machine arrived. The contract is where this occupation's change is written down, and it is renegotiated on a schedule you can find out.


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