Kansas·Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations·SOC 37-1011

Best First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping programs in Kansas, ranked by enrollment

Directly supervise and coordinate work activities of cleaning personnel in hotels, hospitals, offices, and other.

2 schools in Kansas run programs that feed this job, graduating 85 people a year. The job pays a median of $49,780 in Kansas across about 1,570 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledExecutive HousekeeperMaintenance SupervisorHousekeeping SupervisorEnvironmental Services Supervisor (EVS)ButlerMaid SupervisorLinen SupervisorJanitor Supervisor
Graduates / yr
85
in Kansas
Median pay · Kansas
$49,780
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
1,570
people employed
Schools
2
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
55%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Kansas that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Kansas that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Kansas (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Kansas page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 46.0401In Kansas
85
100.0%
2$31,641$9,500

Top 2 schools in Kansas

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 2 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Flint Hills Technical College
Emporia, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
53Building/Property Maintenance$47,69468%
2Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City, KS Public · 1 feeder programs
32Building/Property Maintenance42%

All 2 schools in Kansas

Every school in Kansas with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Kansas that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Flint Hills Technical CollegeEmporiaPublic531
Kansas City Kansas Community CollegeKansas CityPublic321

What first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers earn in Kansas

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Kansas
$49,780
Mean annual
$53,540
Jobs in state
1,570
What the range looks like
10th pct$36,920Median$49,78090th pct$74,770
Versus the national median
+1.4%

U.S. median $49,100. Kansas pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
0.95×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Kansas

Lawrence, KS
$50,610median
70 jobs
Topeka, KS
$48,120median
120 jobs
Wichita, KS
$46,060median
320 jobs
Manhattan, KS
$44,820median
80 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.5%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
33,000
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
6,700
269,800 → 276,400
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers page.

How to become a First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience needed
Less than 5 years

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

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The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Kansas

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 46.0401Building/Property Maintenance

Common questions

Answers for people weighing first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers programs in Kansas.

What degree do you need to become a First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Building/Property Maintenance, which awarded 85 degrees in Kansas in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Building/Construction Finishing. Together they graduate about 85 people a year in Kansas.

How much do first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers earn in Kansas?+

The median is $49,780 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 1.4% above the U.S. median of $49,100. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers growing?+

BLS projects a +2.5% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 33,000 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Kansas?+

2 institutions in Kansas reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do first-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Executive Housekeeper, Maintenance Supervisor, Housekeeping Supervisor, Environmental Services Supervisor (EVS) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 37-1011.

First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers in other statesNorth CarolinaIllinoisVirginiaTexasLouisianaNew JerseyOklahomaTennessee

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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