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City of Boston / Facilities Management / Junior Custodian

Job-title file

Junior Custodian

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

81 employees hold this title in Facilities Management. Median total compensation for the role is $62,984, below the department median of $63,519.

Employees
81
Total payroll
$5.1M
Role median
$62,984
Agency median
$63,519
Comparison
Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$16,572$92,864+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 81 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Junior Custodian pay vs. the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area

Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 43,160 people — is $46,550. Facilities Management pays a median base salary of $60,442 for this role, 30% above that figureabout the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Facilities Management sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$35,680
$38,150
$46,550
$49,770
$60,570
Facilities Management median · $60,442

The bar is the range of annual wages for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners across every employer in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Facilities Management’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 2,209,760 people — is $36,840. Facilities Management’s median base salary is 64% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$28,640
$32,240
$36,840
$44,060
$50,270
Facilities Management median · $60,442

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 78 of 81 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Facilities Management is $62,984, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Record list

Employees with this title

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Manuel Mclean

Junior Custodian/Facilities Management

2024 total comp
$34,541
Base pay
$33,713
Overtime
$577
Other pay
$250
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$34,541
Work ZIP code
02119

Source-specific fields

Id
20047
Other Pay
$250

At Facilities Management, Manuel Mclean serves as a Junior Custodian. Their 2024 pay totaled $34,541.

Virlyn Strobhart

Junior Custodian/Facilities Management

2024 total comp
$34,140
Base pay
$5,707
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$28,434
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$34,140
Work ZIP code
02124

Source-specific fields

Id
20100

Virlyn Strobhart holds the role of Junior Custodian at Facilities Management. In 2024, their total compensation was $34,140.

David Jelley Jr.

Junior Custodian/Facilities Management

2024 total comp
$33,083
Base pay
$13,594
Overtime
$172
Other pay
$19,317
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$33,083
Work ZIP code
02472

Source-specific fields

Id
20241
Other Pay
$19,317

David Jelley Jr. is a Junior Custodian at Facilities Management. 2024 total compensation came to $33,083.