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title: "Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendant"
description: "Provide personal items to patrons or customers in locker rooms, dressing rooms, or coatrooms."
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last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendant

**Category:** Personal Care and Service · **SOC code:** 39-3093 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 39-3093.00

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

Also advertised as: Attendant; Coat Check Attendant; Coat Checker; Coat Room Attendant; Fitting Room Attendant; Ladies Locker Room Attendant; Locker Attendant; Locker Room Attendant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $36,300 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $17.45/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $26,590 to $54,260, with the middle half between $31,200 and $43,880
- **Total US employment:** 15,560
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +6.4% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 4,000 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 55/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 15,560 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $26,590 |
| 25th | $31,200 |
| 50th (median) | $36,300 |
| 75th | $43,880 |
| 90th | $54,260 |
| Mean (average) | $38,460 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HI | $51,100 | $46,475 | 190 |
| DC | $50,440 | $45,896 | 40 |
| MT | $50,370 | $53,220 | 30 |
| WA | $47,500 | $44,387 | 60 |
| CA | $46,560 | $42,052 | 2,620 |
| RI | $41,250 | $40,330 | 70 |
| MA | $40,770 | $38,551 | 190 |
| CT | $40,260 | $38,857 | 110 |
| IL | $38,890 | $38,906 | 800 |
| MD | $38,840 | $37,005 | 320 |
| PA | $38,460 | $39,417 | 580 |
| VA | $38,010 | $37,595 | 120 |
| CO | $37,690 | $36,574 | 80 |
| OR | $37,520 | $36,300 | Not published by BLS |
| NY | $37,420 | $34,674 | 2,250 |

23 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 38 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/locker-room-coatroom-and-dressing-room-attendant/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/locker-room-coatroom-and-dressing-room-attendant.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 16,000 in the 2025–2035 base year to 17,100 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 1,000 jobs, or +6.4%. Faster than average: 6.4% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 4,000 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Short-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 64.2% |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 20.0% |
| Doctoral Degree | 10.8% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 3.6% |
| Some College Courses | 1.4% |

## What the work involves

- Check supplies to ensure adequate availability, and order new supplies when necessary.
- Clean facilities such as floors or locker rooms.
- Collect soiled linen or clothing for laundering.
- Refer guest problems or complaints to supervisors.
- Provide towels and sheets to clients in public baths, steam rooms, and restrooms.
- Monitor patrons' facility use to ensure that rules and regulations are followed, and safety and order are maintained.
- Clean and polish footwear, using brushes, sponges, cleaning fluid, polishes, waxes, liquid or sole dressing, and daubers.
- Maintain a lost-and-found collection.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 1.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 1.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Service Orientation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 2.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 2.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 2.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Public Safety and Security — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Speech Recognition — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Realistic (R), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 5.59 |
| R — Realistic | 4.16 |
| S — Social | 4.14 |
| E — Enterprising | 2.49 |
| A — Artistic | 1.56 |
| I — Investigative | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISFJ | 86.6 |
| ESFJ | 82.7 |
| ESTJ | 79.0 |
| ISTJ | 73.3 |
| ESFP | 54.4 |

Best-fitting types: ISFJ, ESFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/hotel-motel-and-resort-desk-clerk) — median $35,070
- [Concierge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/concierge) — median $38,950
- [Food Server, Nonrestaurant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-server-nonrestaurant) — median $35,360
- [Baggage Porter and Bellhop](https://nuecareer.com/careers/baggage-porter-and-bellhop) — median $37,080
- [Counter and Rental Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerk) — median $41,300
- [Passenger Attendant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/passenger-attendant) — median $37,720
- [Host and Hostess, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop](https://nuecareer.com/careers/host-and-hostess-restaurant-lounge-and-coffee-shop) — median $31,200
- [Parking Attendant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/parking-attendant) — median $35,150
- [Server](https://nuecareer.com/careers/server) — median $35,230
- [Retail Salesperson](https://nuecareer.com/careers/retail-salesperson) — median $35,410

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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