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Personal Care and Service

Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants

Provide personal items to patrons or customers in locker rooms, dressing rooms, or coatrooms.

Also called: Attendant, Coat Check Attendant, Coat Checker, Coat Room Attendant, Fitting Room Attendant, Ladies Locker Room Attendant

Median pay in Greater Boston
$37,610
$18.08/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
200
Massachusetts 2024–2034
+7.9%
60 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
High school diploma or equivalent
plus Short-term on-the-job training

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$35,630$37,500$37,610$44,350$49,550

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • Clean facilities such as floors or locker rooms.
  • Provide towels and sheets to clients in public baths, steam rooms, and restrooms.
  • Collect soiled linen or clothing for laundering.
  • Refer guest problems or complaints to supervisors.
  • Maintain a lost-and-found collection.
  • Clean and polish footwear, using brushes, sponges, cleaning fluid, polishes, waxes, liquid or sole dressing, and daubers.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Moderate exposure41 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 38
  • Language-model AIOE 54
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 31

Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)

AI exposure is moderate, but observed AI use is little or none so far. AI tools may help with tracking lost-and-found items and logging guest complaints. Handing out towels, collecting laundry, and cleaning rooms are physical tasks that stay with people.

Likely to change

  • Tracking lost-and-found items
  • Logging guest problems and complaints

Still relies on people

  • Cleaning locker rooms and facilities
  • Handing out towels and collecting linens

Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.

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Training near Boston

College and school programs in the Boston metro area that lead to this job, with 2023-24 completions (IPEDS).

No college programs near Boston map to this job. Many people enter through on-the-job training or apprenticeship.

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