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A janitor (American English), janitress (female), custodian "cleaner" or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals, schools and residential accommodation. Janitors' primary responsibility is as a cleaner. In some cases they will also carry out maintenance and security duties. A similar position, but usually with more managerial duties and not including cleaning, is occupied by building superintendents in the United States. Cleaning is one of the most commonly outsourced services.
Most of the work performed by janitors and building cleaners is indoors, sometimes it can be outdoors. Outdoors work mainly include sweeping walkways, mowing lawns, or shoveling snow. In some facilities or buildings, a separate company may be hired to do outdoor work. Office buildings are usually cleaned while they are empty, so most of the office janitorial workers work during evening. The work can be physically demanding and sometimes dirty and unpleasant.[1] General janitor duties often include the following tasks:
In 2010, the median pay of a janitor working in the US was $10.68 per hour. The yearly salary could grow by 11% according to the statistics of 2010.[1]
2012 Median Pay
The wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. Median wage data are from the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics survey. In May 2012, the median annual wage for all workers was $34,750. $22,320 per year or $10.73 per hour.[1]
Office cleaning staff perform many of the same duties as janitors. However the tasks are divided among different members. Additional tasks include:
Cleaning is one of the most commonly outsourced services.[4] Some of the reasons for this include:
Between 17% to 23% of the total undocumented immigrant population living in the United States work in the cleaning industry[5] (and growing at a rate of 1/2% to 1/3% percent per year). In addition to this population offering an abundant source of inexpensive labor,[6] janitorial work is mostly undertaken at night, making it an appealing option for janitorial companies to employ undocumented workers[7][8] seeking clandestine employment. Many such immigrants have even started their own janitorial companies using fictitious business licenses[9] and false identication[10] [11] information. In The Netherlands, the number of cleaning companies grew from 5,000 in 2003 to 8,000 in 2008.[12]
The idea of the janitor, often as a figure of ridicule or pity, became a negatively stereotypical black person[13][14] or a blue collar character in popular culture many times denoting ignorance, laziness, failure, exploitation[15] or even perversion[16][17] and have featured widely in film and television.[18] Not all the janitors listed below, however, share these traits. The following are listed in order of first appearance.
Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, Matt Groening, Gracie Films
The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Matt Groening, King of the Hill
Stan Lee, DC Comics, Timely Comics, X-Men, Jack Kirby
Batman, DC Comics, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Action Comics
Tulane University, Louisiana, New Orleans metropolitan area, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina
Grimsby, Life imprisonment, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Perverting the course of justice
Conroe, Texas, Rape, Supreme Court of the United States, Toilet paper, Montgomery County, Texas
National Register of Historic Places, Kingston, New York, New York, Neoclassical architecture, United States
Brian Henson, Jerry Nelson, Bill Barretta, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz
Goa, England, Denmark, Domestic worker, Victorian era