Also called: Laundry Worker (Hotel)
Washes, dries, and folds a hotel's sheets, towels, and uniforms.
A laundry attendant loads huge washers with sheets, feeds them through an ironing machine, folds towels, and keeps housekeeping supplied all day.
Estimate based on BLS laundry workers.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. No experience needed; hotels train you on the job to run industrial washers, dryers and folding machines safely.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Growing slowly (about 1% over 10 years). Tracks laundry worker growth.
Medium risk for 10 years. Automated washers, folders and ironers keep improving, so large hotel laundries need fewer attendants.
Age 16+. One way to start: Apply to hotel laundry openings at resorts and big hotels
Classes: Family & consumer sciences, Health, Spanish.
Official data: O*NET occupation 51-6011.
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