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Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations
Across all 10 of this group's occupations with published Colorado employment, 88,620 Coloradans work in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations. Weighted by those published jobs, the group's mean exposure score is 5.8 of 100, and 0.0% of the jobs are in occupations where most or a large minority of tasks overlap with AI capabilities assessed in 2023.
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners; Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers; Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — the largest of this group's 10 occupations in Colorado.
Every statewide figure on this page is computed directly on published BLS OEWS Colorado state data — a different basis from the county estimates elsewhere on this site, which model occupation mixes from industry mix. The one county table below is labeled accordingly.
- Published CO employment
- 88,620 across all 10 occupations · OEWS 2025
- Employment-weighted mean score
- 5.8 0–100 scale · published statewide data only
- High + substantial share
- 0.0% of the group's published jobs · score ≥ 45 of 100
- CO median wages
- $37,560–$60,840 range across the 10 occupations with published medians · annual, 2025
Plate I
Tier mix within the group
How this group's 10 occupations — and its 88,620 published Colorado jobs — split across the four task-overlap tiers (cuts at 60/45/30 on the 0–100 score scale).
| Tier | Occupations | Published CO jobs | Share of published jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| high overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| substantial overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| some overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| little overlap | 10 | 88,620 | 100.0% |
Plate II
The ten largest occupations in this group
| Occupation | Tier | Score | CO jobs | CO median wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | little overlap | 2.8 | 34,220 | $38,600 |
| Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | little overlap | 2.4 | 21,990 | $45,760 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | little overlap | 5.9 | 19,280 | $37,560 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers | little overlap | 24.5 | 4,390 | $60,840 |
| First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers | little overlap | 25.5 | 4,070 | $55,100 |
| Tree Trimmers and Pruners | little overlap | 6.1 | 1,200 | $51,390 |
| Pest Control Workers | little overlap | 22.9 | 970 | $48,650 |
| Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation | little overlap | 5.6 | 960 | $47,020 |
| Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other | little overlap | 5.3 | 850 | $48,280 |
| Building Cleaning Workers, All Other | little overlap | 5.3 | 690 | $47,140 |
Plate III
Where this work concentrates
The six counties where this group is the largest share of local jobs. These county figures are estimates — modeled from each county's industry mix, not published counts (how county estimates are built) — and a share of a small county's job base can rank above a metro county's much larger absolute employment.
| County | Est. share of county jobs | Est. group jobs | Data quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilpin | 14.1% | 675 | Heavily imputed estimate |
| San Miguel | 8.0% | 486 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Summit | 7.6% | 1,709 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Pitkin | 7.4% | 1,318 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Eagle | 7.3% | 2,609 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Ouray | 6.9% | 151 | Heavily imputed estimate |