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Personal Service

Specific interest area · O*NET

Personal Service is a specific interest area in the O*NET database, part of the Social Holland family. O*NET describes it as: "Work involves providing personal services to individuals in need of non-medical assistance such as helping arrange or plan for travel, meals, or events." It is scored for 891 occupations, which average 1.90 out of 7 on the Occupational Interest scale.

How it's measured

O*NET scores each occupation on this interest on a 0–7 Occupational Interest (OI) scale, where higher means the work more strongly rewards this interest. The figures here are those occupation-level scores — a description of what kind of work each job involves, not a ranking of which job is better, harder, or higher-paid.

Economy-wide average 1.90 / 7 Mean across all 891 scored occupations
Range across occupations 1.00–6.87 Lowest to highest occupation score (spread 5.87)
Prevalence vs. other interests 65th pct Where this interest's average ranks among all O*NET interest dimensions

Occupations that fit this interest best

The occupations that score this interest strongest on the 0–7 scale.

Occupation Score
Concierges 6.87
Travel Agents 6.61
Tour Guides and Escorts 6.52
Travel Guides 6.48
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks 6.09
Flight Attendants 6.05
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists 6.05
Baggage Porters and Bellhops 5.93
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks 5.93
Waiters and Waitresses 5.93
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers 5.84
Skincare Specialists 5.84
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop 5.80
Funeral Home Managers 5.76
Lodging Managers 5.76
Nannies 5.68
Passenger Attendants 5.64
Manicurists and Pedicurists 5.60
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners 5.60
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers 5.47
Spa Managers 5.47
Massage Therapists 5.43
Personal Care Aides 5.39
Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers 5.23
Barbers 5.11

Occupations that fit this interest least

The occupations that score this interest weakest — where the work rarely rewards it.

Occupation Score
Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1.00
Roof Bolters, Mining 1.00
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas 1.00
Roustabouts, Oil and Gas 1.00
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 1.00
Semiconductor Processing Technicians 1.00
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Sheet Metal Workers 1.00
Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders 1.00
Signal and Track Switch Repairers 1.00
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 1.00
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters 1.00
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 1.00
Tapers 1.00
Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders 1.00
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Tire Builders 1.00
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners 1.00
Tool and Die Makers 1.00
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 1.00
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Wellhead Pumpers 1.00
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 1.00

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

  • O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Personal Service." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/interests/personal-service

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Personal Service. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/interests/personal-service

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-personal-service,
  title  = {Personal Service},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/interests/personal-service}
}

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