Unless otherwise indicated, the source is (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
including (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_worker
including (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_house

1. Amanuensis

   Description: A person employed to write or type what another dictates or copy what another has written. A dated and archaic job title
    

   Exposition: An amanuensis (/əˌmænjuˈɛnsɪs/) is a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another, and also refers to a person who signs a document on behalf of another under the latter's authority. The term is often used interchangeably with secretary or scribe.
   
   The word originated in ancient Rome, for a slave at his master's personal service "within hand's reach", performing any command; later it was specifically applied to an intimately trusted servant (often a freedman) acting as a personal secretary (amanuensis is what he does, not what he is).
    

   Ranking: (c) As a trusted advisor but with a limited area of supervision of others and a limited area of duties, an amanuensis would be considered above a footman and below that of a butler (as head of the household staff).
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanuensis

2. Bedder / bedmaker; alternatively, scout, skip

   Description: A worker who makes the beds, traditional and exclusively in academic settings.
    

   Exposition: The term "bedder" is short for "bedmaker" and is the official term for a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge.
   
   In early times, bedders were often employed directly by students and fellows rather than the college, but they are now part-time college employees. ... Even in the early 20th century, before modern utilities were installed in the colleges, the role required heavier labor, cleaning coal fires and carrying water for washing. Nowadays, bedders often change bed linen, vacuum the rooms, empty bins, and perform other domestic services, although their role varies from college to college. Some do not make beds at all, but others go so far as to take care of their students' washing up. ... The role requires a high degree of trust. Some bedders see their role as including a pastoral element, looking out for the needs of young people far from home.
    

   Ranking: (c) Comparable to a chambermaid and the like.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedder
    

   Related Term: Bed-making: The act of arranging the bedsheets and other bedding on a bed, to prepare it for use. It is a household chore but is also performed in establishments including hospitals, hotels, and military or educational residences. Bed-making is also a common childhood chore.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed-making.
    

   Related Service: Turndown Service: In the hospitality industry, turndown service is the practice of staff entering a guest's room and "turning down" the bed linen of the bed in the room, preparing the bed for use.
   
   In multiple countries, an item of confectionery such as a chocolate or a mint is sometimes left on top of a pillow on the bed that has been turned down.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turndown_service

3. Between maid

   Description: An in-between maid whose duties are half in the reception rooms and half in the kitchen.
    

   Exposition: A between maid (nickname tweeny, also called hall girl, particularly in the United States) was a female junior domestic worker in a large household with many staff.
   
   The term hall girl came from her chief duty, which was waitressing in the servants' hall. The term "between maid" came from the fact that her duties were split between the area of responsibilities of the housekeeper, butler, and cook.
   
   A between maid was required to set the table and remove the dishes, as well as waiting for the servants' table. She may also have carried meals up to the head housekeeper if that head of staff had breakfast or afternoon tea in her room(s). A between maid should not be confused with a parlour maid, though both maids had similar household duties. Parlour maids cleaned and tidied reception rooms and living areas in the mornings, and often served refreshments at afternoon tea, as well as sometimes serving dinner. They tidied studies and libraries and, with footmen, answered bells calling for service.
    

   Ranking: (w) similar level as scullery maids (dishwashers, floor scrubbers, oven minders
    

   Related: (w) Hall boy
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_maid

4. Bodyguard

   Description: A worker who protects his employer.
    

   Exposition: A bodyguard (or close protection officer/operative, personal protection specialist) is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offenses. The personnel team that protects a VIP is often referred to as the VIP's security detail.
    

   Ranking: (c) Unstated
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyguard

5. Boot boy

   Description: A young male servant, employed mostly to perform footwear maintenance and minor auxiliary tasks. Sometimes, simply Boots
    

   Exposition: An English household servant. Usually a boy or young teenager; his main job was to clean, polish and care for the household members' boots and shoes, although he may have done other odd jobs as well, particularly in smaller houses where he may have also performed the duties of the hallboy.
    

   Ranking: (w) Lowest-ranking male servant, similar to hall boy.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_boy

6. Butler

   Description: A senior employee usually found in larger households, almost invariably a man, whose duties traditionally include overseeing the wine cellar, the silverware, and some oversight of the other, usually male, servants.
    

   Exposition: A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were better paid and of higher status than female servants. He can also sometimes function as a chauffeur.
   
   Titles such as majordomo, butler administrator, house manager, manservant, staff manager, chief of staff, staff captain, estate manager, and head of household staff are sometimes given.
   
   In the grandest homes or when the employer owns more than one residence, there is sometimes an estate manager of higher rank than the butler. The butler can also be assisted by a head footman or footboy called the under-butler.
   
   As the 21st century approached, many butlers began carrying out an increasing number of duties formerly reserved for more junior household servants. Butlers today may be called upon to do whatever household and personal duties their employers deem fitting, with the goal of freeing their employers to carry out their own personal and professional affairs.
    

   Ranking: (w) Department Head: The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler

7. Casual staff

   Description: Part-time extra external worker.
    

   Exposition: Temporary work or temporary employment (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time-based on the needs of the employing organization. Temporary employees are sometimes called "contractual", "seasonal", "interim", "casual staff", "outsourcing", "freelance"; or the words may be shortened to "temps".
    

   Ranking: (c) Temporary worker has a lower rank than the same worker engaged permanently.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_work

8. Chambermaid

   Description: A maid whose chief focus is on cleaning and maintaining bedrooms, ensuring fires are lit in fireplaces when needed, and supplying hot water.
    

   Exposition: A maid, or housemaid, or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era, domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now only found in the wealthiest households. In other parts of the world, maids remain common in urban middle-class households.
   
   House-maid or housemaid: a generic term for maids whose function was chiefly "above stairs", and were usually a little older, and better paid. Where a household included multiple housemaids the roles were often sub-divided. ... Chamber maid cleaned and maintained the bedrooms, ensured fires were lit in fireplaces and supplied hot water.
    

   Ranking: (w)

   1. Head house-maid
   2. Parlour maid
   3. Chamber maid
   4. Laundry maid
   5. Under house parlour maid

    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid

9. Charwoman (AKA Char or Saturday's woman)

   Description: A female house or office cleaner, usually part-time.
    

   Exposition: A charwoman (also chargirl, charlady, or char) is an old-fashioned occupational term, referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually lives as part of the household within the structure of domestic service. A charwoman might work independently, often for cash in hand, or might come through an employment agency.
   
   Charwomen have also sometimes been referred to as "scrubwomen". The word has the same root as "chore woman", one hired to do odd chores around the house. In British English, "cleaner" is now used much more often. In American English, the term "maid" is often used for any woman who cleans a home or hotel, whether she lives there or not.
    

   Ranking: (c) Temporary worker has a lower rank than the same worker engaged permanently.
    

   Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charwoman

10. Chauffeur

    Description: A personal driver (for motor vehicles).
     

    Exposition: A person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicles such as a large sedan or limousine.
    
    Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but this has changed to specialist chauffeur service companies or individual drivers that provide both driver and vehicle for hire. Some service companies merely provide the driver.
    
    While the term may refer to anybody who drives for a living, it usually implies a driver of an elegant passenger vehicle such as a horse-drawn carriage, luxury sedan, motor coach, or especially a limousine; those who operate buses or non-passenger vehicles are generally referred to as "drivers".
    
    Dress: In many places (or at times in the past), proper physical presence is presented by the chauffeur at all times. This usually includes a well-groomed individual, conservatively dressed in a clean and crisply pressed black or dark business suit or tuxedo, dress shirt, and appropriately matching tie, with black leather gloves and freshly polished matching footwear.
    
    Other Duties: (w) (c) A chauffeur's duties would include maintenance of the vehicle, including routine maintenance and cleaning so that both passengers and onlookers are impressed.
    
    Related: car valet: an employee who is paid to clean people's cars professionally.
     

    Ranking: (c) unspecified, similar to Coachman
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauffeur

11. Cleaner

    Description: A worker who cleans homes, institutions, or commercial premises.
     

    Exposition: A cleaner or a cleaning operative is a type of industrial or domestic worker who cleans homes or commercial premises for payment. Cleaning operatives may specialize in cleaning particular things or places, such as window cleaners. Cleaning operatives often work when the people who otherwise occupy the space are not around. They may clean offices at night or houses during the workday.
    
    Typical cleaning equipment:

    • Broom/Dustpan
    • Buckets with water/cleaning solution
    • Cleaning agents
    • Floor polisher
    • Garbage bag
    • Hand feather duster and/or microfibre floor duster
    • Mop and Mop bucket cart
    • Towels used to wipe personal desks
    • Vacuum cleaner
    • Wet floor sign

    
     

    Ranking: (c) Similar to Housekeeper

    See also: (c) Janitor
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaner

12. Coachman

    Description: Drives horse carriage and is in charge of the stables.
     

    Exposition: A coachman is an employee who drives a coach or carriage, a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of passengers. A coachman has also been called a coachee, coachy, whip, or hackman. The coachman's first concern is to remain in full control of the horses (or other similar animals such as mules) and another employee, traditionally a footman would accompany the coach to handle any circumstances beyond the coachman's control.
    
    The driver of a wagon or cart drawn by a draught animal was known as a teamster or carter.
     

    Ranking: (c) Above footman
     

    Similar to: (c) chauffeur
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachman

13. Cook

    Description: This is either a cook who works alone or the head of a team of cooks who work for their employer.
     

    Exposition: A cook or private chef is a household staff member responsible for food preparation.
    
    The term can refer to the head of kitchen staff in a great house or to the cook-housekeeper, a far less prestigious position involving more physical labor.
    
    The cook in an English great house was traditionally female; today's residences may employ a head cook or chef who may be of either gender.
    
    The cook is responsible for the preparation of daily meals and menus, as well as menus for parties and other special occasions. The cook is also responsible for the ordering of food, the maintenance of the kitchen, and keeping accounts with local merchants. The holder of the position reports directly to the lady of the house or sometimes to the housekeeper.
     

    Ranking: (w) Department Head
     

    See also: (w) Personal chef
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_(domestic_worker)

14. Dairymaid; also dairywoman, dairyman

    Description: Hand milked the animals, make butter and other dairy products.
     

    Exposition: History (dairy): The animals might serve multiple purposes (for example, as a draught animal for pulling a plow as a youngster, and at the end of its useful life as meat). In this case, the animals were normally milked by hand and the herd size was quite small, so that all of the animals could be milked in less than an hour—about 10 per milker. These tasks were performed by a dairymaid (dairywoman) or dairyman. The word dairy harkens back to Middle English dayerie, deyerie, from deye (female servant or dairymaid) and further back to Old English dæge (kneader of bread).
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy#History
     

15. Dog walker

    Description: A worker who walks dogs.
     

    Exposition: Dog walking is the act of a person walking with a dog, typically from the dog's residence and then returning. Leashes are commonly used for this. Both owners and pets receive many benefits, including exercise and companionship.
    
    Professional dog walkers, both individuals, and businesses are paid by dog owners to walk their dogs for them. Some dog walkers will take many dogs for a walk at once, while others will only take a single dog.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated; transitory
     

    See also: (w) Pet sitting
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_walking

16. Estate Manager/Steward

    Description: Management and Overseer of the estates
     

    Exposition: On large estates or in families with more than one residence, there may be a steward (or the modern equivalent, an estate manager) who oversees the direction of the entire establishment.
    
    The head of the household is not the butler, but the house manager. An estate manager manages more than one property and usually has a financial and managerial background.
    
    Household Staff

    Title	Description
    Butler	The head of household staff in most homes; in charge of the pantry, wine cellar, and dining room. In a small house, the butler also valets for the master of the house. Male staff report to him. The butler is often engaged by the master of the house but usually reports to the lady of the house or sometimes to the housekeeper.
    Cook	In charge of the kitchen and kitchen staff. Sometimes a chef is employed with several subordinate cooks. The cook usually reports directly to the lady of the house but sometimes to the housekeeper. If the cook is a woman, she is always addressed as "Mrs", regardless of her marital status.
    Housekeeper	Responsible for the house and its appearance; in charge of all female servants, but can sometimes be the lead servant in a household. The female housekeeper is always addressed as "Mrs", regardless of her marital status.

    Support Staff

    • For the master of the house:
      • Valet (Gentleman's gentleman)
    • For the lady of the house:
      • Companion
      • Lady's maid
    • For the children:
      • Governess
      • Nanny
      • Tutor
    • For needs of the household:
      • Chauffeur

    
    Junior household staff

    • Footman
    • Hall boy
    • Useful Man (also called houseman)
    • Boot boy
    • Maid (see Types of maid)
      • Between staff or Between maids (also called Hall girls, particularly in the US)
      • Chambermaid
      • Housemaid
      • Kitchen maid
      • Laundry maid
      • Nursemaid
      • Parlourmaid
      • Scullery maid
      • Still room maid
    • Page
    • Seamstress

    
    
    Grounds Staff
    An estate manager may have charge of the maintenance and care of the grounds, landscaping, and outbuildings (pool, cabana, stables, greenhouse etc.) which is divided into departments.
     

    Title	Description
    Head gardener	Responsible for the grounds around the house; in charge of any additional gardeners or seasonal men and women brought in at times of harvest or planting.
    Stable Master Gamekeeper	Various titles used for the individual responsible for the keeping of animals, particularly those used for recreational pursuits such as horseback riding, fox hunting or dog fancy.

    Support grounds staff

    • Gardeners
    • Groundskeepers
    • Stablehands
    • Handyman

    
     

    Ranking: (w) As overseer of various Department Heads (Butler, Cook, Housekeeper, Head Gardner, Stable Master, and/or Gameskeeper), would have the highest ranking.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_house#Household_staff

17. Footman

    Description: A lower-ranking manservant.
     

    Exposition: A footman or footboy is a male domestic worker employed mainly to wait at the table or attend a coach or carriage.
    
    The name was applied to a household servant who waited at the table and attended and rode on, his employer's coach or carriage in case of untoward incidents.
    
    The first footman was the designation given to the highest-ranking servant of this class in a given household. The first footman would serve as deputy butler and act as the butler in the latter's absence, although some larger houses also had an under-butler above the first footman.
    
    In a larger household, various footmen might be assigned specific duties (for which there might be a traditional sequence), such as the silver specialist. Usually, the footmen performed a range of duties which included serving meals, opening and closing doors, carrying heavy items, or moving furniture for the housemaid to clean behind. The footmen might also double as valets, especially for visiting guests.
     

    Ranking: (w) Below butler and under-butler
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footman

18. Game keeper

    Description: Caring and maintaining the bird and deer population on a large estate.
     

    Exposition: A professional hunter (less frequently referred to as market or commercial hunter and regionally, especially in Britain and Ireland, as professional stalker or gamekeeper) is a person who hunts and/or manages game by profession. Some professional hunters work in the private sector or for government agencies and manage species that are considered overabundant, others are self-employed and make a living by selling hides and meat, while still others guide clients on big-game hunts.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_hunter

19. Gardener (Grounds keeper/Horticulturist)

    Related: Head Gardener in charge of all gardening.
    Description: A worker who tends to the garden.
     

    Exposition: A gardener is any person involved in gardening, arguably the oldest occupation, from the hobbyist in a residential garden, the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to an employee in a plant nursery or the head gardener in a large estate.
    
    The garden designer is someone who will design the garden, and the gardener is the person who will undertake the work to produce the desired outcome.
     

    Related: Head Gardener is an individual who manages all horticultural aspects of a property or garden, including staff and volunteers. The properties they manage include historic gardens and private estates, as well as amenity horticulture teams, for example, with a county council. Except in recognized large organizations, the role of head gardener is often amalgamated with a site maintenance manager, ranger, dog walker, horse sitter, chef, and other non-horticultural roles.
    
    The remit of a head gardener, and the required experience varies between roles and properties, but head gardeners would normally be educated to an exceptionally high level within their field and have many years of experience to support that education.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardener
    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_gardener
     

    Famous Gardner: (c) Chance, Being There
     

20. Gatekeeper

    Description: Job of guarding the main entrance to the estate.
     

    Exposition: A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is "in or out," in the classic words of management scholar Kurt Lewin.
    
    Figures acting in this capacity may also undertake the status of a watchman, interrogator, or judge. ... A domestic servant with the job of guarding the main entrance to the estate.
    
    Other people gatekeeping roles are in mental health service, clergy, police, hairdressers, and bartenders because of their extensive contact with the public.
     

    Ranking: (c) Undesignated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper
     

    Related: (w) A doorman (or doorwoman/doorperson), also called a porter in British English, is a person hired to provide courtesy and security services at a residential building.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorman_(profession)
     

    Related: (w) A bouncer (also known as a doorman or door supervisor) is a type of security guard. A bouncer's duties are to provide security, challenge entry to uninvited guests, and refuse entry for persons who are aggressive or non-compliant with statutory or establishment rules.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncer
     

    Related: (w) A receptionist is the person taking an administrative support position to receive or greet any visitors or guests and provide supervision of them until the host is ready to receive them.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptionist

21. Groundskeeper

    Description: A worker who tends to the person's large property.
     

    Exposition: Groundskeeping is the activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes, typically in an institutional setting. It includes mowing grass, trimming hedges, pulling weeds, planting flowers, etc.
    
    A groundskeeper is a person who maintains landscaping, gardens, or sporting venues (and their vegetation where appropriate) for appearance and functionality.
    
    The BLS (USA Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics) describes the functions of this group as "Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units".
    
    Groundskeeping equipment comprises tools and vehicles used in groundskeeping, including:

    • mowers
    • lawn mowers
    • tractors
    • string trimmers
    • snow blowers
    • snow plows
    • edgers
    • rotary brushes
    • rakes
    • leaf blowers
    • shovels
    • trowels
    • sprinklers
    • garden tools
    • watering cans or truck-mounted watering system
    • line markers

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundskeeping

22. Hall boy

    Description: The lowest ranking male servant who is usually found only in large households.
     

    Exposition: The hall boy or hallboy was a position held by a young male domestic worker on the staff of a great house, usually a young teenager. The name derives from the fact that the hall boy usually slept in the servants' hall.
    
    Like his female counterpart, the scullery maid, the hall boy would have been expected to work up to 16 hours per day, seven days per week. His duties were often among the most disagreeable in the house, such as emptying chamber pots for the higher-ranking servants. In the absence of a boot boy, he also cleaned the boots not just of the family members but also those of the butler and those of the visitors. The hall boy also waited on more senior servants when they took their meals in the servants' hall.
     

    Ranking: (w) Lowest ranking male servant, similar to boot boy
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_boy

23. Handmaiden

    Description: A handmaiden, handmaid, or maidservant is a personal maid or female servant.
     

    Exposition: Depending on culture or historical period, a handmaiden may be of slave status or maybe simply an employee. The term handmaid is applied to a female servant who serves her mistress.
     

    Ranking: (w) The term handmaiden generally implies lowly status.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handmaiden

24. Handyman

    Description: A worker who handles household repairs.
     

    Exposition: A handyman, also known as a fixer, handyperson, or handyworker [also Maintenance Person], is a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home. These tasks include trade skills, repair work, and maintenance work, are both interior and exterior, and are sometimes described as "side work", "odd jobs" or "fix-up tasks". Specifically, these jobs could be light plumbing jobs such as fixing a leaky toilet or light electric jobs such as changing a light fixture or bulb.
    
    There are resources on the Internet, as well as do-it-yourself guide books, with instructions about how to complete a wide range of projects. ... Historically being a handyman was considered a less prestigious occupation than a specialist such as a plumber, electrician, or carpenter. ... Tasks range from minor to major, from unskilled to highly skilled, and include painting, drywall repair, remodeling, minor plumbing work, minor electrical work, household carpentry, sheetrock, crown molding, and furniture assembly.
    
    See Source for a list of jobs for a handyman.
     

    Ranking: (w) Undesignated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handyman

25. Horse trainer

    Description: A worker who trains the horses for those who own them.
     

    Exposition: A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines. Some of the responsibilities trainers have are caring for the animals' physical needs, as well as teaching them submissive behaviors, and/or coaching them for events, which may include contests and other riding purposes. The level of education and the yearly salary they can earn for this profession may differ depending on where the person is employed.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unspecified
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_trainer

26. Houseboy

    Description: A worker who does personal chores.
     

    Exposition: A houseboy (alternatively spelled as houseboi) was a term that referred to a typically male domestic worker or personal assistant who performed cleaning and other forms of personal chores.
    
    Military slang: Houseboy was also used as an American slang term originating in the Second World War for a young teenager who helped American soldiers perform basic responsibilities like cleaning, laundry, ironing, shoe-shining, running errands, etc.
    
    Gay culture: A houseboy, as used by members of the LGBT community, refers to a young man who performs domestic work, where the employee normally has an erotic, though not necessarily sexual, aspect.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unspecified
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboy

27. Housekeeper

    Description: A housekeeper usually denotes a female senior employee.
     

    Exposition: A housekeeper (also called necessary woman) is an individual responsible for the supervision of a house's cleaning staff. The housekeeper may also perform the cleaning duties themself.
    
    History: In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry is taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall. Unlike most other servants, she was addressed as Mrs regardless of her marital status.
    
    The housekeeper is generally hired by and reports to the lady of the house. The extent to which the housekeeper supervises other staff varies from household to household. In general, the staff of a grand dwelling is divided into departments, with the housekeeper in charge of all the female staff with the possible exception of the kitchen staff, who report to the cook, and the between staff, who may report to the butler; in these cases, the cook and butler reported directly to the lady of the house.
     

    Ranking: (w) Department Head
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housekeeper_(domestic_worker)

28. Janitor

    Description: A person who cleans and maintains buildings.
     

    Exposition: A janitor, also known as a custodian, porter, cleanser, cleaner, or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings. In some cases, they will also carry out maintenance and security duties. A similar position, but usually with more managerial duties and not including cleaning, is occupied by building superintendents and site managers.
    
    General janitor duties often include the following tasks:

    • Cleaning and restocking bathrooms
      • Sinks
      • Toilets
      • Urinals
      • Scrubbing feces from toilette, floor, and stall
      • Floor cleaning, refinishing, and polishing (sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, and buffing)
      • Clearing garbage bins
      • Restocking restroom paper products and other supplies such as feminine products and air fresheners
      • Cleaning mirrors
    • Cleaning floors (mopping, sweeping, polishing)
    • Carpet cleaning (dry method, extraction, steam, and bonnet)
    • Cleaning carpeting (vacuuming)
    • Cleaning stainless steel and other special surfaces
    • Clearing lunch room/kitchen
    • Cleaning tables in cubicles, meeting rooms, etc.
    • Window washing
    • Scrubbing concrete
    • Emptying trash and recycling bins
    • Unlocking and locking buildings at the beginning and end of the day
    • Operation of building systems (turning on and off lights, setting thermostats, etc.) In some places, this may include testing/maintaining/setting building safety/security systems (fire alarms, burglar alarms, surveillance cameras, etc.)
    • Stripping and waxing floors using a Floor buffer
    • Cleaning air-conditioner vents
    • Spot cleaning (generally spills - coffee for instance)
    • Sanitization
    • Room and event setups (tables and chairs, audio-video equipment, etc.) (college/schools, etc.)
    • Raising and lowering flags (schools)
    • Removing graffiti or other forms of vandalism
    • Minor maintenance work, such as:
      • changing light bulbs and filters,
      • replacing ceiling tiles,
      • doing small repairs,
      • fixing small leaks,
      • performing testing and monitoring of building equipment, etc.
    • Outdoor work, such as:
      • cleaning walkways,
      • litter pickup,
      • mowing lawns,
      • tending to landscape plantings,
      • leaf and loose tree limb clean up,
      • snow removal, etc.
      In some places, groundskeepers or a separate company may do outdoor work.
    • Porterage (internal deliveries; movement of equipment or people
    • Unclogging blocked drains and toilets
    • Removing vomit, urine, and feces from public areas
    • Additional tasks include:
      • watering plants (pruning as well)
      • cleaning sinks, refrigerators, microwaves, and toasters in the kitchen; clearing recycling and garbage bins
      • dusting furniture and computer equipment (monitors and desk area, but excluding keyboards and mouse or other tracking devices) and tables

    
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated but similar to a midrange household staff due to the skill required.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor

29. Kitchen maid

    Description: A worker who works for the cook.
     

    Exposition: A kitchen maid or kitchen girl is a young housemaid or other junior female domestic worker. In the 19th century, a colloquial version was "kitchen-maid".
     

    Ranking: (w) In the hierarchy of a great house, the kitchen maid ranked below a cook and above a scullery maid. An experienced kitchen maid is an assistant cook
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_maid_(domestic_worker)

30. Lackey

    Description: A runner who may be overworked and underpaid.
     

    Exposition: A lackey or lacquey, in its original definition, is a uniformed manservant. Sometimes also a messenger.
    
    The modern connotation of "servile follower" appeared later.
    
    Lackey is typically used as a derogatory term for a servant with little or no self-respect who belittles himself in order to gain an advantage. Such advantage is often assumed to be slight, temporary, and often illusory.
     

    Ranking: (c) Similar to that of Footman
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackey_(manservant)

31. Lady's companion

    Description: A lady's companion was a woman of genteel birth who lived with a woman of rank or wealth as retainer.
     

    Exposition: The companion's role was to spend her time with her employer, providing company and conversation, to help her to entertain guests and often to accompany her to social events. In return she would be given a room in the family's part of the house, rather than the servants' quarters; all of her meals would be provided, and she would eat with her employer; and she would be paid a small salary, which would be called an "allowance" – never "wages".
    
    A lady's companion was not regarded as a servant, but neither was she really treated as an equal; however her position in the household of her employer was notably less awkward and solitary than that of a governess.
    
    She would not be expected to perform any domestic duties which her employer might not carry out herself, in other words little other than giving directions to servants, fancy sewing and pouring tea. Thus the role was not very different from that of an adult relation in respect of the lady of a household, except for the essential subservience resulting from financial dependency.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated; not a servant
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%27s_companion

32. Lady's maid

    Description: A woman's personal attendant, helping her with her clothes, shoes, accessories, hair, and cosmetics.
     

    Exposition: A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on her female employer. The role of a lady's maid is similar to that of a gentleman's valet.
    
    The rewards for the lady's maid included room and board, travel, and somewhat improved social status. In the servants' hall, a lady's maid took precedence akin to that of her mistress.
    
    A lady's maid's specific duties included helping her mistress with her appearance, including make-up, hairdressing, clothing, jewelry, and shoes. A lady's maid would also remove stains from clothing; sew, mend, and alter garments as needed; bring her mistress breakfast in her room, and draw her mistress's bath. However, she would not be expected to dust and clean every small item as that would be the job of a housemaid.
     

    Ranking: (w) Traditionally, the lady's maid was not as high-ranking as a lady's companion.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%27s_maid

33. Laundress

    Description: A laundry servant.
     

    Exposition: A laundress or a washerwoman is a woman who takes in laundry. Both terms are now old-fashioned; equivalent work nowadays is done by a laundry worker in large commercial premises or a laundrette (laundromat) attendant.
    
    In many cultures, laundry was seen as "women's work", so the village washhouse acted as a space for women to gather and talk together as they washed clothes. While having a significant social function in various human cultures over thousands of years, the spread of washing machines and self-service laundries have rendered washerwomen unnecessary in much of the contemporary world.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washerwoman

34. Librarian

    Description: A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users.
     

    Exposition: The role of the librarian has changed much over time, with the past century, in particular, bringing many new media and technologies into play. From the earliest libraries in the ancient world to the modern information hub, there have been keepers and disseminators of the information held in data stores. Roles and responsibilities vary widely depending on the type of library, the specialty of the librarian, and the functions needed to maintain collections and make them available to its users.
    
    The role of a librarian is continually evolving to meet social and technological needs. A modern librarian may deal with the provision and maintenance of information in many formats, including books; electronic resources; magazines; newspapers; audio and video recordings; maps; manuscripts; photographs and other graphic material; bibliographic databases; and Internet-based and digital resources. A librarian may also provide other information services, such as information literacy instruction; computer provision and training; coordination with community groups to host public programs; assistive technology for people with disabilities; and assistance locating community resources.
    
    The Internet has had a profound impact on the resources and services that librarians of all kinds provide to their patrons. Electronic information has transformed the roles and responsibilities of librarians, even to the point of revolutionizing library education and service expectations.
    
    Positions and duties Specific duties vary depending on the size and type of library. Most librarians spend their time working in one of the areas of a library. See source
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian

35. Maid (AKA Housemaid)

    Description: Female servants who do the typical duties.
     

    Exposition: A maid, or housemaid, or maidservant, is a female domestic worker.
    
    Maids perform typical domestic chores such as laundry, ironing, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, cooking, and caring for household pets. They may also take care of children, although there are more specific occupations for this, such as a nanny. Many maids are required by their employers to wear a uniform.
    
    The work of a maid has always been hard, involving a full day, and extensive duties.
    
    In Victorian England, all middle-class families would have "help", but for most small households, this would be only one employee, the maid of all work, often known colloquially as "the girl".
    
    Further, in more modest households a single maid-of-all-work or skivvy was often the only staff. I
    
    A brief table of maid specialties:

    Title	Description
    Lady's maid	A senior servant who reported directly to the lady of the house, but ranked beneath the Housekeeper, and accompanied her lady on travel. She took care of her mistress's clothes and hair and sometimes served as a confidante.
    House-maid or housemaid	A generic term for maids whose function was chiefly "above stairs", and were usually a little older, and better paid. Where a household included multiple housemaids the roles were often sub-divided.
    House-maid: Head house-maid	The senior house maid, reporting to the Housekeeper. (Also called "House parlour maid" in an establishment with only one or two upstairs maids).
    House-maid: Parlour maid	They cleaned and tidied reception rooms and living areas by morning, and often served refreshments at afternoon tea, and sometimes also dinner. They tidied studies and libraries, and (with footmen) answered bells calling for service.
    House-maid: Chamber maid	They cleaned and maintained the bedrooms, ensured fires were lit in fireplaces and supplied hot water.
    House-maid: Laundry maid	They maintained bedding and towels. They also washed, dried, and ironed clothes for the whole household, including the servants.
    House-maid: Under house parlour maid	The general deputy to the house parlour maid in a small establishment that had only two upstairs maids.
    Nursery maid	Also an "upstairs maid", but one who worked in the children's nursery, maintaining fires, cleanliness, and good order. Reported to the Nanny rather than the Housekeeper.
    Kitchen maid	A "below stairs" maid who reported to the Cook, and assisted in running the kitchens.
    Kitchen maid: Head kitchen maid	Where multiple kitchen maids were employed, the "head kitchen maid" was effectively a deputy to the cook, engaged largely in the plainer and simpler cooking (sometimes cooking the servants' meals).
    Kitchen maid: Under kitchen maid	Where multiple kitchen maids were employed these were the staff who prepared vegetables, peeled potatoes, and assisted in the presentation of finished cooking for serving.
    Scullery maid	The lowest grade of "below stairs" maid, reporting to the cook, the scullery maids were responsible for washing cutlery, crockery, and glassware, scrubbing kitchen floors, as well as monitoring ovens while kitchen maids ate their own supper.
    Between maid	Sometimes known as a "tweeny": roughly equivalent in status to scullery maids, and often paid less, between maids in a large household waited on the senior servants (butler, housekeeper, and cook) and were therefore answerable to all three department heads, often leading to friction in their employment.
    Still room maid	A junior maid who was employed in the still room [ distillery room]; as the work involved the supply of alcohol, cosmetics, medicines, and cooking ingredients across all departments of the house, the still room maids were part of the "between staff", jointly answerable to all three department heads.

    Note: (w) The use of the still room devolved to making only jams, jellies, and home-brewed beverages, and it became a store room for perishables such as cakes. The still room was staffed by the housekeeper or cook, then later by the still room maid.
     

    Note: (w) A maid service may be more expensive than simply hiring a part-time maid, but it offers a number of advantages. Workers employed by the maid service perform typical domestic chores such as cooking, ironing, washing, cleaning, folding clothes, grocery shopping, walking the family dog and taking care of children. Some maid services offer hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly work as well.
    
    Usually the service will provide not only someone to do the cleaning, but also all of the necessary cleaning supplies. Also, as a bona fide employer, the service is responsible for withholding Social Security and other income taxes. Third, a service is insured and often bonded, so it can be held accountable if something is stolen or missing.
     

    Ranking: (w) Unspecified, but also depends on the size of the household and the specialty the maid is employed to perform.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_service

36. Majordomo

    Description: The senior-most staff member of a very large household or stately home.
     

    Exposition: A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another. Typically, this is the highest (major) person of a household (domūs or domicile) staff, a head servant who acts on behalf of the owner of a large or significant residence.
     

    Ranking: (w) Above those who the majordomo oversees.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo

37. Masseur/Masseuse

    Description: A servant who performs massages.
     

    Exposition: Massage is the manipulation of the body's soft tissues. Massage techniques are commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet, or a device. The purpose of massage is generally for the treatment of body stress or pain. In European countries, a person professionally trained to give massages is traditionally known as a masseur (male) or masseuse (female). In the United States, these individuals are often referred to as massage therapists, because they must be certified and licensed as "Licensed Massage Therapists".
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage

38. Nanny (AKA children's Nurse)

    Description: A woman who takes care of infants and children.
     

    Exposition: A nanny is a person who provides child care. Typically, this care is given within the children's family setting. Throughout history, nannies were usually servants in large households and reported directly to the lady of the house. Today, modern nannies, like other domestic workers, may live in or out of the house, depending on their circumstances and those of their employers. Nannies can become a part of their family's household.
    
    Typically, a live-in nanny is responsible for the entire care of the children of their employers. This includes anything from washing the children's clothes, tidying the children's rooms, supervising homework, preparing children's meals, taking children to and from school, and taking children to after-school sports and/or activities.
     

    Ranking: (w) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny

39. Nursemaid (AKA Nursery maid)

    Description: A maid who oversees the nursery.
     

    Exposition: A nursemaid (or nursery maid) is a mostly historical term for a female domestic worker who cares for children within a large household. The term implies that she is an assistant to an older and more experienced employee, a role usually known as nurse or nanny. A family wealthy enough to have multiple servants looking after the children would have a large domestic staff, traditionally within a strict hierarchy, and a large house (or possibly several, such as the townhouse and country house) with nursery quarters.
    
    Everything that a parent ordinarily might do, especially the more onerous tasks, could be turned over to a nursemaid. Feeding very young children and supervising somewhat older children at meal times, seeing that the children are dressed properly, watching over the children as they play outside, and other such tasks could be left to a nursemaid.
     

    Ranking: (w) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursemaid

40. Page or Tea boy

    Description: An Apprentice footman, 10 to 16 years old.
     

    Exposition: A page or page boy is traditionally a young male attendant or servant, but may also have been used as a messenger at the service of a nobleman.
    
    In medieval times, a page was an attendant to a nobleman, a knight, a governor, or a Castellan. Upon reaching seven years of age, a boy would be sent to the castle, great house, or an estate of another noble family.
    
    A young boy served as a page for about seven years, running messages, serving, cleaning clothing and weapons, and learning the basics of combat. He might be required to arm or dress the lord to whom he had been sent by his own family. Personal service of this nature was not considered demeaning, in the context of shared noble status by page and lord. It was seen rather as a form of education in return for labor. While a page did not receive reimbursement other than clothing, accommodation, and food, he could be rewarded for an exceptional act of service. In return for his work, the page would receive training in horse-riding, hunting, hawking, and combat – the essential skills required of adult men of his rank in medieval society.
    
    Until the early 20th century, boys of humble backgrounds might gain a similar place in a great house. These pages were apprentice footmen. Unlike the hall boys, who did heavy work, these pages performed light odd jobs and stood in attendance wearing livery when guests were being received.
    
    Contemporary use of the term: US television network NBC's page program is a notable example of contemporary workplace pages. Also, the Congressional page program allows college-age people to have an apprenticeship in the inner workings of Congress and politics.
     

    Ranking: (c) As an apprentice position, i.e., apprentice footman, no greater than the graduated position.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(servant)

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_(assistance_occupation)

41. Parlour maid

    Description: Cleaning the sitting rooms, drawing rooms, library, and alike.
     

    Exposition: A maid that cleaned and tidied reception rooms and living areas by morning, and often served refreshments at afternoon tea, and sometimes also dinner. They tidied studies and libraries, and (with footmen) answered bells calling for service.
     

    Ranking: (c) Above Chamber made but below Head housemaid.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid#Types

42. Personal shopper

    Description: A person who does the shopping.
     

    Exposition: A personal shopper is a person who helps others shop by giving advice and making suggestions. When employed by department stores, boutiques, furniture retailers, and other sellers, they may be referred to as shop/sales associates/assistants, i.e., salespeople. The service may be complimentary by the seller. Other stores will charge a small fee to use their personal shoppers and the amenities that come along with the service.
    
    Some personal shoppers operate without affiliation on a freelance basis or work exclusively online. The service could private client event styling and closet organizing. Outside of agencies, personal shoppers can be found on auction websites such as eBay where they auction their services to obtain customized items such as men's and women's clothing collections.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated but below that of Companion and below that of Cook
     

    See also: (c) Personal stylist
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_shopper

43. Personal stylist.

    Description: Person who selects or recommends clothing and accessories for a client
     

    Exposition: A personal stylist advises individuals on new fashion trends, clothing styles, personal styles, colors, and make-up. Personal stylists typically work one-on-one with the client to put together a particular look or theme. A personal stylist is concerned with an individual rather than a particular fashion brand or retailer.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated but below that of Companion and above that of other maids
     

    See also: (c) Personal shopper
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_stylist

44. Personal trainer

    Description: A worker who trains their employer in fitness, swimming, and sports.
     

    Exposition: A personal trainer is an individual who has earned a certification that demonstrates they have achieved a level of competency for creating and delivering safe and effective exercise programs for apparently healthy individuals and groups or those with medical clearance to exercise. They motivate clients by collaborating to set goals, providing meaningful feedback, and by being a reliable source for accountability. Trainers also conduct a variety of assessments beginning with a preparticipation health screening and may also include assessments of posture and movement, flexibility, balance, core function, cardio-respiratory fitness, muscular fitness, body composition, and skill-related parameters (e.g., power, agility, coordination, speed, and reactivity) to observe and gather relevant information needed to develop an effective exercise program and support client goal attainment. These assessments may be performed at the beginning of and after an exercise program to measure client progress toward improved physical fitness. They also provide education on many other aspects of wellness, including general health and nutrition guidelines. Helping clients reach their full potential in various aspects of life requires a comprehensive client-centered approach along with a belief that clients are resourceful and capable of change.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated but akin to Companion.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_trainer

45. Pet sitting

    Description: Pet sitting is the act of temporarily taking care of another person's pet for a given time frame. It commonly occurs at the pet owner's home, but may also occur at the provider's home or at a pet sitting place of business or organization.
     

    Exposition: Pet sitting is a more personal and individualized arrangement for care compared to boarding or kenneling. Specialized training is usually not required for pet sitting.
    
    Many pet owners prefer hiring pet sitters instead of the more traditional pet care options available, i.e., kennel boarding. Some reasons cited for using a pet sitter are to prevent stress to the animal caused by a changing environment, travel trauma, contracting illnesses and parasites from exposure to other animals, not meeting vaccination requirements that may be necessary for kennelling, and to maintain regular routines and prevent the need to adapt to a new environment. It is also a solution for pets with health problems and mobility issues due to arthritis, dysplasia, incontinence, etc.
    
    Vacation care is the most typical type of pet sitting service. While a pet owner is on vacation, a pet sitter will arrange to visit the client's home for a period of time and frequency as determined between the pet owner and sitter. Services include (but are not limited to) feeding, exercising, grooming, providing company, monitoring health, administering medications, or other special care. Less commonly, pet sitters offer live-in care which can also include the service of house sitting and property maintenance. The pet sitter would also be required to take care of any "pet mess" and maintain any litter box.
    
    Dog walking: Pet sitters commonly provide dog walking services. Clients hire pet sitters to exercise and care for their pets when they are unable to do so themselves. This is particularly prevalent in dense urban areas, where pet owners often lead busy working lives, and are hence unable to care for their pets. Also, Clients who are physically unable to exercise their pets due to their own health issues or the client is not physically strong enough due to age.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated; transitory
     

    See also: (w) Dog walking
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_sitting

46. Porter

    Description: Like a hall boy, but older with added building security duties.
     

    Exposition: A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who carries objects or cargo for others. The range of services conducted by porters is extensive, from shuttling luggage aboard a train (a railroad porter) to bearing heavy burdens at altitude in inclement weather on multi-month mountaineering expeditions. They can carry items on their backs (backpacks) or on their heads. The word "porter" derives from the Latin portare (to carry).
    
    The role of the porter for specialized transporting services remains strong in the 21st century. Examples include bellhops at hotels, redcaps at railway stations, skycaps at airports, and bearers on adventure trips engaged by foreign travelers.

    Ranking: (c) Unstated but akin to either footman or hall boy.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(carrier)

47. Pool person, pool attendant

    Description: A worker who works by the swimming pool.
     

    Exposition: A cabana boy, also cabana boi is a male attendant who serves the guests of a hotel or large private estate, operating from a nearby cabaña (American Spanish for cabin). A pool boy, also pool boi, or pool attendant performs the same duties at a swimming pool. Duties may include: working with towels, swimsuits, robes, blankets, bathing caps, soap, umbrellas, and beach chairs, and may serve refreshments.
    
    Some minor maintenance duties may include pool furniture, pool water, and pool chemicals, if not detailed to another worker.
     

    Related: (c) Lifeguard [not listed]
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabana_boy

48. Retainer (Retinue and Affinity)

    Description: A servant, especially one who has been with one family for a long time (chiefly British English).
     

    Exposition: A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble, royal personage, or dignitary, a suite (literal French meaning: what follows) of "retainers". Such retainers were not necessarily in the domestic service or otherwise normally close to the presence of their lord, but also include others who wore his livery (a kind of uniform, in distinctive colors) and claimed his protection, such as musicians and tutors.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated, add seniority to the basic Ranking
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinue
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_(medieval)

49. Scullery maid

    Description: The lowest-ranking and often the youngest of the female domestic servants who act as assistants to the kitchen maid.
    
    A scullery is a room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen. Tasks performed in the scullery include cleaning dishes and cooking utensils (or storing them), occasional kitchen work, ironing, boiling water for cooking or bathing, and soaking and washing clothes. Some of the function of a scullery has been assumed by a utility room or a laundry room.
     

    Exposition: The scullery maid reported (through the kitchen maid) to the cook or chef. Along with the junior kitchen maid, the scullery maid did not eat at the communal servants' dining hall table, but in the kitchen in order to keep an eye on the food that was still cooking.
    
    The duties of the scullery maid included the most physical and demanding tasks in the kitchen such as cleaning and scouring the floor, stoves, sinks, pots, and dishes. After scouring the plates in the scullery, she would leave them on racks to dry. The scullery maid also assisted in cleaning vegetables, plucking fowl, and scaling fish.
    
    In addition to her other tasks, the scullery maid had to keep the scullery clean by clearing away meat and vegetable garbage, scrubbing work tables, and swilling the floors. The water was carried through a drain outside the house. Before the advent of central heating systems, scullery maids were required to light the fires on the kitchen stove and supply hot water for tea and washing. She performed these tasks in the morning before the cook came down to the kitchens.
    
    In a household with no between maid, the scullery maid may also have waited on staff in the Servants' hall, although this may have been assigned to another maid or a junior footman. In the days before the indoor water closet, she may have been required to empty and clean the servants' chamber pots as well.
     

    Ranking: (w) The lowest ranking of the domestic workers
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scullery_maid

50. Stable boy or Groom

    Description: A worker who handles the management of the horses and the stables.
     

    Exposition: A groom or stable boy (stable hand, stable lad) is a person who is responsible for some or all aspects of the management of horses and/or the care of the stables themselves. The term most often refers to a person who is the employee of a stable owner, but an owner of a horse may perform the duties of a groom, particularly if the owner only possesses a few horses.
    
    Stablehand is a more old-fashioned term; the variation stableman usually applies to an experienced adult, the lowest rank stableboy (corresponding to the first origin of groom) rather to a minor and/or trainee.
    
    
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated, below that of Stable Master
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_(profession)

51. Stable Master

    Description: Responsible for running the stables.
     

    Exposition: A stable master or head groom is the manager in charge of a stable.
    
    The head groom usually has complete responsibility for the horses including devising training schedules, choosing feeds for optimum nutrition and ensuring the horses are shod, wormed, inoculated, and provided with timely veterinary care.
    
    In a private residence, the stable master has these responsibilities and must also accommodate the riding schedules of the employer's family and, if necessary, arrange for lessons and training. The stable master must insure that a groom is on call during specified hours in case any members of the employer's family wish to ride. The stable master is also responsible for the special needs of aged and retired horses, and usually for the maintenance and overall appearance of the stables. The stable master may or may not report to a steward or estate manager.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_master

52. Still room maid

    Description: The still-room maid is a female servant who works in the still (distillery) room.
     

    Exposition: The still-room maid works in the still (distillery) room, the functional room in a great house in which drinks and jams are made. The work involved the supply of alcohol, cosmetics, medicines, and cooking ingredients across all departments of the house. The still-room maid is a junior servant, and as a member of the between staff, reports to both the housekeeper and the cook.
    
    Once common in houses with large staffs, the still-room maid is rare in the 21st century.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated; below Cook and above Scullery maid.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_room_maid

53. Storeroom maid

    Description: Maintaining the stores of linens, foodstuffs, pantry, and household supplies.
     

    Exposition: [none]
     

    Ranking: (c) Above a scullery maid
     

    Source: (w) [none]

54. Tailor and Seamstress

    Description: A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing.
    
    A dressmaker, also known as a seamstress, is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Dressmakers were historically known as mantua-makers, and are also known as a modiste or fabrician.
     

    Exposition: A typical tailor shop would have a master, a foreman, several journeymen, and apprentices. The apprentices, often beginning their training as young adolescents and indentured to the master by their parents (for a fee), performed menial tasks such as cleaning, managing the fires to heat the pressing irons, running errands, and matching fabric and trims. Apprentices were also taught the "tailor's posture", to sit cross-legged on a raised board or bench while sewing. A tailoring establishment at the time generally consisted of a well-appointed room in which the master would measure customers; cutting, sewing, buttonholes, and finishing work were performed in adjoining rooms.
    
    Sewing professional is the most general term for those who make their living by sewing, teaching, writing about sewing, or retailing sewing supplies. A sewing professional may work out of the home, in a studio, or in a retail shop, and may work part-time or full-time. This work may include any or all of the following sub-specialties:
     

    Fabrician

    A person who is considered an expert in making modifications and alterations to fabrics and other articles of clothing.

    Custom clothier

    A person who makes custom garments one at a time, to order, to meet an individual customer's needs and preferences.

    Custom dressmaker

    A person who specializes in women's custom apparel, including day dresses, career wear, suits, evening or bridal wear, sportswear, or lingerie.

    Tailor/Tailoress

    A person who makes custom menswear-style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them, for men or women.

    Alterations specialist or Alterationist

    A person who adjusts the fit of completed garments, usually ready-to-wear, or restyles them. Note that while all tailors can do alterations, by no means can all alterationists do tailoring.

    Designer

    A person who chooses combinations of line, proportion, color, and texture for intended garments. They may have no sewing or patternmaking skills, and may only sketch or conceptualize garments.

    Patternmaker

    A person who flat drafts the shapes and sizes of the numerous pieces of a garment by hand using paper and measuring tools or by computer using CAD software, or by draping muslin on a dress form.

    Wardrobe consultant or Fashion advisor

    A person who recommends styles and colors for a client.

    Seamster/Seamstress; Sempstress (arch)

    A person who sews, especially one who earns a living by sewing. Before the Industrial Revolution, a seamstress did hand sewing, especially under the putting-out system.

    Costume designer

    A person who designs costumes for a film, stage production, or television show.

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailor
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressmaker

55. Tutor

    Description: Tutoring is private academic support, usually provided by an expert teacher; someone with deep knowledge or defined expertise in a particular subject or set of subjects.
     

    Exposition: A tutor, formally also called an academic tutor, is a person who provides assistance or tutelage to one or more people on certain subject areas or skills. The tutor spends a few hours on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis to transfer their expertise on the topic or skill to the student (also called a tutee). Tutoring can take place in different settings.
    
    There can be an existing overlap between different types of tutoring with respect to the setting or location of tutoring, the size of tutor-learner pairings/groups, and the method of tutoring provided, for example, one-on-one peer tutoring can take place through online tutoring. Tutoring is typically private since it exists independent of the system of public and private education, that is, one can be enrolled in public/private schooling and attend private tutoring services.
    
    Types of tutoring

    • Academic coaching
    • Home-based tutoring
    • Online tutoring
    • Peer tutoring
    • Tutoring response to Covid-19

    Ranking: (w) / (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutoring

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-home_tutoring

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_tutoring

56. Useful man

    Description: A useful man or houseman is a male domestic worker ranking below a footman but above a hall boy.
     

    Exposition: Unlike the footman, the useful man never enters the dining room or waits personally on the master of the house. The term houseman should be distinguished from houseboy—a male domestic worker of lower rank.
     

    Ranking: (w) Above houseboy
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_man

57. Valet

    Description: Known as the "gentleman's gentleman", a valet is responsible for the master's wardrobe and assisting him in dressing, shaving, etc.
     

    Exposition: A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as a personal attendant to his employer. The term "valet" by itself most often refers to a normal servant responsible for the clothes and personal belongings of an employer and making minor arrangements. In the United States, the term most often refers to a parking valet, and the role is often confused with a butler.
    
    A valet or "gentleman's gentleman" is a gentleman's male servant; the closest female equivalent is a lady's maid. The valet performs personal services such as maintaining his employer's clothes, running his bath, and perhaps (especially in the past) shaving his employer. In a bachelor's household, the valet might perform light housekeeping duties as well.
    
    Valets learned the skills for their role in various ways. Some began as footmen, learning some relevant skills as part of that job, and picking up others when deputizing for their master's valet, or by performing valeting tasks for his sons before they had a valet of their own, or for male guests who did not travel with a valet. Others started out as soldier-servants to army officers (batmen) or stewards to naval officers.
    
    Traditionally, a valet did much more than merely lay out clothes and take care of personal items. He was also responsible for making travel arrangements, dealing with any bills, and handling all money matters concerning his master or his master's household.
    
    Valet is also used for people performing specific services:

    • hotel valet: an employee who performs personal services for guests.
    • parking valet: a service employee who parks cars for guests, only from 1960.
    • car valet: an employee who is paid to clean people's cars professionally. See also: Chauffeur
    • valet: a professional wrestling term for a person who accompanies a wrestler to the ring.
    • Jockey's valet: an employee who maintains a jockey's wardrobe and ensures the proper uniform is worn for each horse the jockey races.

    
     

    Ranking: (c) Comparable to a lady's maid, reports the butler and would be above footman.
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valet

58. Wet nurse

    Description: A nurse who provides suckling for infants if mothers cannot or do not wish to do so themselves.
     

    Exposition: A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child.[1] Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, or if she is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures, the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship.
     

    Ranking: (c) Unstated
     

    Source: (w) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse

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