Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $32,380. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 8,960, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. Georgia leads the state table with 1,380 jobs; the top three states sum to 36.2% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Mississippi posts a location quotient of 6.16, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $49,080, which is 1.8 times the $27,230 at the 10th, a difference of $21,850 annually. Because the mean wage ($38,500) sits above the median ($37,940), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders runs from the $45,960 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Georgia (1,380 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders stands number 698 by employment and number 742 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 18% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 14 of the 34 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,940, 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 720 jobs, 8.0% 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, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $39,890 a year, against $41,650 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. 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 annual wage of $37,940 works out to $3,162 a month before taxes, $1,459 per biweekly paycheck, and $730 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($32,380) to the 75th ($43,710) is worth $11,330 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $41,734 would sit between the median ($37,940) and the 75th percentile ($43,710), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $32,380, is $5,560 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators, Power Plant Operators, Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers, Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.