Pest Control Workers

Benchmarks for this occupation

These benchmarks name this occupation in their job mapping.

Direct evidence

Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.

• BEHAVIOR Challenge 2025by Stanford UniversityTask level · Q-score (held-out test)

  0.26Robot Learning Collective · 14 Nov 2025

  Emerging

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in food service, cleaning, and personal care, not always this occupation's tasks.

Also relevant

These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.

• RoboArenaby UC Berkeley and Stanford UniversityTask level · Leaderboard score (Elo-style)

  1735 EloDreamZero (dreaming_zebra) · 24 Sep 2026

  Unrated
• RoboChallenge Table30by Dexmal and Hugging FaceTask level · Success rate

  64.3%Era0 · May 2026

  Strong

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

• Record work activities performed.
• Clean work site after completion of job.
• Measure area dimensions requiring treatment, calculate fumigant requirements, and estimate cost for service.
• Spray or dust chemical solutions, powders, or gases into rooms, onto clothing, furnishings, or wood, or over marshlands, ditches, or catch basins.
• Recommend treatment and prevention methods for pest problems to clients.
• Inspect premises to identify infestation source and extent of damage to property, wall, or roof porosity and access to infested locations.
• Drive truck equipped with power spraying equipment.
• Direct, or assist other workers in, treatment or extermination processes to eliminate or control rodents, insects, or weeds.
• Study preliminary reports or diagrams of infested area and determine treatment type required to eliminate and prevent recurrence of infestation.
• Cut or bore openings in building or surrounding concrete, access infested areas, insert nozzle, and inject pesticide to impregnate ground.
• Post warning signs and lock building doors to secure area to be fumigated.
• Set mechanical traps, or place poisonous paste or bait in sewers, burrows, or ditches.