Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders worker at that point in the distribution, so $43,230 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 5,820 jobs nationally, Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders make up 0.00% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: North Carolina alone holds 1,120 of those jobs, the top three states hold 48.1%, and the deepest concentration sits in Rhode Island (location quotient 9.56, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $28,990 or less, and one in ten earns $47,660 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.6 to 1 and the annual gap is $18,670. The mean ($39,000) versus median ($37,320) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Massachusetts posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $49,350, and North Carolina the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders stands number 745 by employment and number 755 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 19% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 12 of the 18 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,320, 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 920 jobs, 15.8% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $37,480 a year, against $37,480 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,110 a month before tax, $1,435 biweekly, $718 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($32,350) to the 75th ($43,230) is worth $10,880 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $41,052 would sit between the median ($37,320) and the 75th percentile ($43,230), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $32,350, is $4,970 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

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: Upholsterers, Tire Builders, Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders, Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other, Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders. The full directory is on the Careers hub.