Compare A Housekeeping Supervisor ↔ B Facilities Maintenance Supervisor

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1 move · +$35,100 a year, Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels

Gates on this route

Move 1, to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).

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Housekeeping Supervisor to Facilities Maintenance Supervisor +$35,100 Texas medians of each whole occupation, all experience levels
- O*NET lists First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers as a related occupation (Primary-Short); skills and knowledge profile similarity r = 0.78.
- Gates: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).
- Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting

Side by side

All First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers: Texas median $76,760, $35,100 more a year than all First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers ($41,660), every experience level.

Facilities Maintenance Supervisor: 53% work more than 40 hours a week, about 3.2 times the share for Housekeeping Supervisor (16%).

This level's pay

A No headline record for this level

B $25.74 to $30.50/h City of Austin (incl. Austin Energy) pay range, 2025

No published schedule lists both jobs, so no level-specific difference is shown.

Occupation-wide pay all experience levels, not this level's pay; Texas median, base pay, $0 to $300k

$41,660+$35,100$76,760

Gates on the route: license depends on the work (No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608), experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET, most common).

Outlook 2024 to 2034 whole occupation

A +11.5% Texas, 2,970 openings a year

B +11.2% Texas, 6,510 openings a year

Over 40 h a week

16%+37 pts53%

Physical load our index from O*NET, 1 to 5; A B; largest differences first

2.4 / 5+0.32.6 / 5

Hazardous equipment+1.98Hazardous equipment: A 1.56, B 3.54
Very hot or cold+1.75Very hot or cold: A 1.67, B 3.42
Outdoors, all weather+0.88Outdoors, all weather: A 2.38, B 3.26
High places+0.84High places: A 1.59, B 2.43
Walking or running-0.81Walking or running: A 3.7, B 2.89

Degree

A Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 12% do).

B Most people in this job do not hold a bachelor's degree (O*NET: 10% do).

License

A No license for this job title at the 8 Texas and federal licensing agencies read on 2026-10-03 (TDLR, TSBPE, TCEQ, TCFP, TEA, TBPELS, NRC and EPA).

B No Texas license for in-house maintenance: electrician (1305.003(a)(8)) and plumbing (1301.053(a)(1)) laws exempt maintenance staff who do not work for the public. Refrigerant work needs EPA 608.

Experience

A Most common related work experience: over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (O*NET: 36%).

B Most common related work experience: over 2 years, up to and including 4 years (O*NET: 41%).

Skills O*NET importance, 1 to 5

You likely have: 6

Complex Problem Solving
Learning Strategies
Social Perceptiveness
Instructing
Negotiation
Persuasion

To build: 6

Operations Monitoring +1.13
Operation and Control +1.00
Troubleshooting +1.00
Systems Analysis +0.87
Judgment and Decision Making +0.75
Monitoring +0.75

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