Cleaning and waste work at events: pay and how to get hired
Cleaning and waste staff keep venues clean during events and turn them round afterwards. There are 225 live cleaning and waste jobs on Event Job Site right now. In the US, jobs that list an hourly rate pay a median of $18.00 an hour (87 jobs).
What the work is
During an event you keep toilets, concourses and seating areas clean and empty bins; afterwards you clear and reset the venue for the next one.
Festival and stadium work includes litter picking, recycling and waste sorting, often outdoors.
Shifts are often early mornings or late nights, around the event itself.
What it pays
| Country | Median per hour | Middle half | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | $18.00 | $15.00 to $23.00 | 87 |
See all 225 cleaning and waste jobs
What helps you get hired
- No formal qualifications are usually needed. Reliability and being free for early or late shifts count most.
- Be ready to prove your right to work on your first shift. (Source: GOV.UK, Prove your right to work to an employer)
How we worked this out
We used every live job on Event Job Site: 3,543 jobs today, most of them listed from the employers' own careers pages and the rest posted with us directly. 1,429 of them list pay, 1,415 as an hourly rate.
Pay figures use hourly rates only, in the currency the employer gives. Where a job gives a range, we use the lower figure. We show the median (half of jobs pay more, half less) and the middle half of rates, so one unusual listing can't skew the picture. A role or place is shown only when at least 10 jobs list an hourly rate; smaller groups are left out rather than guessed.
The figures refresh from live jobs as employers post and close jobs. The "Figures updated" date at the top is when a figure last changed.
Questions people ask
How much do cleaning and waste jobs at events pay?
In the US, the median is $18.00 an hour and half of jobs pay between $15.00 and $23.00, from 87 live jobs that list an hourly rate.