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Janitors and Cleaners: where your skills can take you

Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.

Usual study level (from US data): Cert IV or Diploma (TAFE; if you have experience, recognition of prior learning can shorten it)

Job names and descriptions on this page come from the US government's job list (O*NET). Some use American words, for example "elementary school" for primary school.

Three moves that use what a janitors and cleaner already knows

Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.

Dishwashers

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, managing your own time, reading people and weighing up the options.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (99%).

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Clean dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils.

Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors

Usual study level (from US data): Cert II–III (TAFE, often Fee-Free; apprenticeship/traineeship routes count)

🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, managing your own time, reading people and weighing up the options.

🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is high school or less (83%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Collect and dump refuse or recyclable materials from containers into truck. May drive truck.

Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers

Most common: Year 12 or below (61%) · A$60,000 median full-time for Laundry Workers (Jobs and Skills Australia)

🧰 Your current job already uses managing your own time, reading people, working in step with other people and keeping an eye on how work is going.

🎓 No more study. The most common level in Australia is Year 12 or below (61%).

🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗

Operate or tend washing or dry-cleaning machines to wash or dry-clean industrial or household articles, such as cloth garments, suede, leather, furs, blankets, draperies, linens, rugs, and carpets. Includes spotters and dyers of these articles.

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What this list is. A starting point, not advice. Australian pay is shown where a job maps cleanly. Check any course or registration with the body that runs it.

Data sources and licences

O*NET 30.3 — This service incorporates information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JobMatcha has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

ABS ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update — Australian occupation tags are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ANZSCO 2022 Australian Update correspondence tables (ABS, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0), bridged to U.S. occupations via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SOC crosswalks (public domain). Only high-confidence (>= 0.8) one-to-one chains are shown; other mappings are withheld as 'Australian data unavailable'.

Australian pay and shortage lines: Jobs and Skills Australia.

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