How to hire a senior housekeeper

How to hire a senior housekeeper, step by step

Here's a step-by-step senior housekeeper hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a senior housekeeper job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new senior housekeeper
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your senior housekeeper job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a senior housekeeper for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   You should also consider the ideal background you'd like them a senior housekeeper to have before you start to hire. For example, what industry or field would you like them to have experience in, what level of seniority or education does the job require, and how much it'll cost to hire a senior housekeeper that fits the bill.

   Here's a comparison of senior housekeeper salaries for various roles:

   Type of Senior Housekeeper	Description	Hourly rate
   Senior Housekeeper		$12-21
   Maid	Maids are individuals who perform domestic chores like ironing, grocery shopping, cleaning, and laundry. Primarily, maids oversee the maintenance of wardrobes, serve meals, and lay out clothes... Show more	$9-16
   Guest Room Attendant	A guest room attendant's main specialty is in servicing and cleaning guest rooms. Your job as a room attendant is to ensure that all rooms and bathrooms are made inviting and clean for guests... Show more	$10-16

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Cleanliness
   • OSHA
   • Guest Rooms
   • MSDS
   • Compassion
   • Front Desk
   • Floor Care
   • Laundry Room
   • Patient Rooms
   • Residents Rooms
   • Clean Environment
   • Housekeeping Management
   • Windows
   • Payroll

   Check all skills

   Responsibilities:

   • Manage payroll administration and scheduling.
   • Create MSDS manual for all products used in the housekeeping department.
   • Assist with minimizing costs including payroll, inventory and overhead costs.
   • Conduct daily room inspections to ensure consistent cleanliness standards are adhere to in the rooms and public area.
   • Assist medical staff and patients in upholding environmental standards for hospital mandates.
   • Operate extractors and driers, or direct their operation.

   More senior housekeeper duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the senior housekeeper job description is a good way to get more applicants. A senior housekeeper salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for a senior housekeeper in South Carolina may be lower than in Alaska, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level senior housekeeper. Additionally, a senior housekeeper with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average senior housekeeper salary

   $16.35hourly

   $34,017 yearly

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   Entry-level senior housekeeper salary

   $25,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 30, 2026

   Average senior housekeeper salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	Washington	$41,819	$20
   2	Oregon	$39,549	$19
   3	California	$38,550	$19
   4	Minnesota	$38,106	$18
   5	Colorado	$37,787	$18
   6	New York	$37,646	$18
   7	Arizona	$33,074	$16
   8	Ohio	$31,554	$15
   9	Kansas	$29,846	$14
   10	Texas	$28,112	$14
   11	Florida	$26,360	$13
   12	South Carolina	$26,075	$13
   13	Georgia	$25,738	$12
   14	Alabama	$22,609	$11

   Average senior housekeeper salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Hilton Grand Vacations	$44,642	$21.46	39
   2	HEI Hotels & Resorts	$44,158	$21.23	8
   3	Hyatt Hotels	$43,625	$20.97	124
   4	Cadence Design Systems	$41,395	$19.90
   5	Dignity Health	$39,724	$19.10	20
   6	Encompass Health	$39,543	$19.01	1
   7	Catholic Charities New Hampshire	$37,866	$18.20
   8	Marriott International	$37,807	$18.18	219
   9	Health Alliance	$37,702	$18.13
   10	Oxford Health of New Jersey	$36,871	$17.73
   11	Samaritas	$36,420	$17.51
   12	Bridge Investment Group	$35,908	$17.26
   13	Indigo Arts	$35,634	$17.13
   14	Banner Health	$35,281	$16.96	7
   15	Vacasa	$34,636	$16.65	36
   16	Hannibal Regional	$34,191	$16.44	1
   17	Sodexo Management, Inc.	$33,341	$16.03	21
   18	Sanford Health	$32,960	$15.85	51
   19	IPS	$32,713	$15.73
   20	Montecito Bank & Trust	$32,611	$15.68

4. Writing a senior housekeeper job description

   A senior housekeeper job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. To help get you started, here's an example of a senior housekeeper job description:

   Senior housekeeper job description example

   Up to $1,500 New Hire Bonus

   Seeking an enthusiastic, guest-friendly, proactive individual with a passion for hospitality to join our team. You will inspect rooms by ensuring that our guest rooms meet their standards upon their arrival at our properties. Provides excellence in service for guests and owners while on the property, responding to guest inquiries and needs.

   What will I be doing?

   • Greet guests immediately with friendly/candid acknowledgment.
   • Provides customer services to guests, including information about resort services, activities, and local attractions.
   • Clean rooms but not limited to stripping dirty linens, vacuuming, dusting, mopping, cleaning dishes in the dishwasher, making beds, cleaning bathrooms and counters, and moving furniture. All work must be completed within an allotted time frame in order to meet production standards.
   • Report deficiencies in order to maintain room in compliance with resort standards.
   • Replenishes linen and guest amenities
   • The senior housekeeper will be responsible to clean, inspect and turning in ready according to the high cleanliness and working order standards of HGV.
   • Assist co-workers as requested.
   • Expected to utilize self-service technology frequently as part of your employment with HGV.
   • Carry out other duties as assigned by leadership.
   • Regular attendance, grooming standards, and safety guidelines established by the company and site are crucial to the successful performance of this position. Team members are expected to adhere to the handbook and all HGV policies.

   Qualifications

   What are we looking for?

   A team-first attitude!

   To fulfill this role successfully, you'll need to possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

   • Ability to perform multi-task assignments.
   • Flexibility to work during different shifts.
   • Ability to communicate (oral and written) with team members and guests.
   • 1+ year self-inspecting experience

   It would be advantageous in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions:

   • High School Diploma or equivalent

   What will it be like to be a Team Member?

   Hilton Grand Vacations is a leader in the vacation ownership industry, operating with an unwavering commitment to innovation, quality, and continued growth. At the core of our company's success are our Team Members. We offer a fantastic benefit package to our full-time Team Members that include medical, dental and vision insurance, 401K plan, Paid Time Off (PTO) program and outstanding travel benefits.

   Don't wait! Apply Today.

   
   We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

   We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find senior housekeepers for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your senior housekeeper job on Zippia to find and recruit senior housekeeper candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with senior housekeeper candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new senior housekeeper

   Once you've found the senior housekeeper candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   To prepare for the new senior housekeeper first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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