Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers vs Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers carries the higher exposed share at 7.6% against 5.4%, a gap of 2.2 points. The difference is driven by both capability and friction: the two jobs differ in what a system can produce and in what stops it, by roughly the same amount. Release v2026.Q3.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | 7.6% | 4.1% | 88.3% | 0.12 | 0.30 | $39,150 | 836 | untouched |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 5.4% | 3.3% | 91.2% | 0.09 | 0.27 | $35,510 | 869 | untouched |
What stands in the way, in each
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers: the dominant friction is that the work happens to physical things in physical places. Capability sits at 0.12 of 1 and friction at 0.30 of 1.
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners: the dominant friction is that the work happens to physical things in physical places. Capability sits at 0.09 of 1 and friction at 0.27 of 1.
Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.
Read each in full
Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.