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MINOR GROUP 514: OTHER PERSONAL SERVICES WORKERS
 


    Other personal services workers perform various tasks in order to improve the appearance of individuals, provide companionship or look after the wardrobe and other personal effects of employers, or provide embalming and funeral services.

    Tasks performed usually include: cutting and dressing hair; shaving and trimming beards; giving beauty treatment and applying cosmetics and make-up; shaping and polishing finger- and toe-nails and treating minor ailments of the human foot; attending to clients taking baths and administering elementary massage; providing services as companions or valets; providing embalming and funeral services. Supervision of other workers may be included.

    Occupations in this minor group are classified into the following unit groups:

    5141 Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers

    5142 Companions and valets

    5143 Undertakers and embalmers

    5149 Other personal services workers not elsewhere classified

   
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 Updated 18 September 2004, by VA.