How to become a Butler
Official title: Butler (hotel and related establishment)
Also called: Butler, Personal butler, Personal butler
Butler (hotel and related establishment) provides personalised services to guests in hospitality establishment. He/she coordinates amenity deliveries, replenishes room amenities, attends to errands assigned by guests/customers, food and beverage related duties and household management in luxurious suites. He/she also handles in-room services such as in-room dining, laundry, garment pressing and shoe shine services.
Main tasks
- Performing other housekeeping duties
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Work-study diploma. Related ITE work-study diplomas: Work-Study Diploma in Hotel & Restaurant Management. You are employed by a company and study at ITE at the same time. Peernovo matched these from course names.
- Polytechnic or ITE: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec). Related ITE courses: Higher Nitec in Hospitality Operations; Technical Diploma in Hospitality & Hotel Management. Peernovo matched these from course names; ITE does not publish which jobs each course leads to.; Polytechnic diploma. Related diplomas: Diploma in Hotel & Leisure Management (Republic Polytechnic); Diploma in Hospitality & Tourism Management (Temasek Polytechnic). Peernovo matched these from course names; polytechnics do not publish which jobs each course leads to.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Housekeeper (hotel and related establishment)
- House steward
- Housekeeping matron
- Head butler (hotel and related establishment)
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Butler?
Ways in include: ITE course (Nitec or Higher Nitec); Polytechnic diploma; Work-study diploma.
Will AI change the work of a Butler?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- 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