Housekeeping supervisors

How to become a building caretaker

Official title: Building caretakers

Also called: Caretaker, Concierge (building), Janitor, Sexton

Building caretakers take care of apartment houses, hotels, offices, churches and other buildings and maintain them and associated grounds in a clean and orderly condition. They may supervise other workers and contractors depending on the size and nature of the building concerned.

Main tasks

Supervising the work of cleaning, housekeeping and building maintenance staff and contractors
Participating in cleaning, simple repairs and maintenance of building interiors
Tending furnaces and boilers to ensure provision of heat and hot water
Regulating conduct of tenants and visitors in such matters as noise abatement or misuse of property
Providing small services to absent tenants such as accepting deliveries on their behalf or providing requested information to callers
Notifying management and owners of buildings of the need for major repairs
Patrolling buildings to ensure security is maintained
Filling out registration forms and providing tenants with copies of rules

Ways in

Qualifications Framework: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Property Management. The Qualifications Framework publishes a Vocational Qualifications Pathway for the Property Management industry (物業管理業), showing QF-recognised qualifications by level: https://www.hkqf.gov.hk/pm/en/vqp. Link between the industry and this job by Peernovo.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

Median pay: HK$16,500 a month
About 732,700 people in 2025, and about 740,500 projected by 2028. (+1.1%)
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Questions people ask

How do I become a building caretaker?

Ways in include: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Property Management.

Do you need a degree to become a building caretaker?

Usually not. Only 6% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Ways in include: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Property Management.

Will AI change the work of a building caretaker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
Census and Statistics Department (Annual Earnings and Hours Survey): Monthly and hourly wage percentiles by occupational group (5 groups) (Tables 220-23014, 220-23024, 220-23003) (2025 (May to June 2025), released 2026-03-23), retrieved 4 October 2026
Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026