Building custodian vs floor staff

The differences between building custodians and floor staff can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a floor staff has an average salary of $33,187, which is higher than the $28,125 average annual salary of a building custodian.

The top three skills for a building custodian include GRASS, building floors and ladders. The most important skills for a floor staff are POS, phone calls, and cleanliness.

Building custodian vs floor staff overview

	Building Custodian	Floor Staff
Yearly salary	$28,125	$33,187
Hourly rate	$13.52	$15.96
Growth rate	4%	4%
Number of jobs	36,128	84,351
Job satisfaction	-	3
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 41%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Average age	49	49
Years of experience	-	-

Building custodian vs floor staff salary

Building custodians and floor staff have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Building Custodian	Floor Staff
Average salary	$28,125	$33,187
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $36,000	Between $21,000 And $50,000
Highest paying City	Lawrence, MA	-
Highest paying state	Massachusetts	-
Best paying company	University of California, Berkeley	-
Best paying industry	Government	-

Differences between building custodian and floor staff education

There are a few differences between a building custodian and a floor staff in terms of educational background:

	Building Custodian	Floor Staff
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 41%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Building custodian vs floor staff demographics

Here are the differences between building custodians' and floor staff' demographics:

	Building Custodian	Floor Staff
Average age	49	49
Gender ratio	Male, 74.9% Female, 25.1%	Male, 50.9% Female, 49.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.0% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 22.1% Asian, 5.1% White, 57.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.3%	Black or African American, 12.2% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 21.2% Asian, 5.1% White, 55.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.6%
LGBT Percentage	5%	5%

Differences between building custodian and floor staff duties and responsibilities

Building custodian example responsibilities.

Use of floor scrubbers and carpet machine.s.
Clean all bathrooms including fixtures, urinals, toilets, washbowls and wall tiles.
Sweep all floors, scrub interior and exterior surfaces including underside lips of commodes, urinals and wash basins.
Maintain a positive accountability for cleanliness for a secure government building.
Perform mechanical repairs and services to plumbing, electrical, mechanical systems and large rotating equipment including refrigeration systems.
Perform emergencies work requests, schedule and unschedule maintenance program, emergencies and coordinate special projects as directed.

Floor staff example responsibilities.

Manage top prize payouts, involving large amounts of funds being transfer across the gaming floor.
Establish good time management and customer service skills, specifically in organization and cleanliness.
Operate high speed and low speed buffers, walk behind buffers and scrubbers, ride-on scrubbers, and square dry scrubbers.
Operate Scrubbers/buffers/high speed buffers/carpet extractors.
Perform routine maintenance on automatic scrubbers and propane buffers.
Maintain cleanliness and organization of work environment while also resolving conflicts between customers.

Building custodian vs floor staff skills

Common building custodian skills

GRASS, 10%
Building Floors, 9%
Ladders, 6%
Light Fixtures, 6%
Cleanliness, 6%
Building Maintenance, 5%

Common floor staff skills

POS, 18%
Phone Calls, 18%
Cleanliness, 16%
Math, 13%
Emergency Situations, 13%
Crowd Control, 9%

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