Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other offer sit among all 14,450 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 14,450 Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in New Hampshire, where the location quotient is 5.29, meaning the occupation holds 5.29 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 2,960 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 44.8% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $23,420 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($53,710) is 1.8 times the 10th percentile ($30,290), a gap of $23,420 a year. The mean of $40,410 sitting above the median of $37,010 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 2,960 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New York would lead at $73,080. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other stands number 617 by employment and number 762 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Production Occupations, the group median wage is $46,020 across 105 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 23 of the 38 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,010, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 2,380 jobs, 16.5% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dalton, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $33,480 a year, against $61,410 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $1,423 every two weeks on an annual $37,010, which is $3,084 a month and $712 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($32,850) to the 75th ($44,810) is worth $11,960 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $40,711 would sit between the median ($37,010) and the 75th percentile ($44,810), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $32,850, is $4,160 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Production Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders, Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians, Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators, Chemical Plant and System Operators, Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.