Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, 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 Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders worker at that point in the distribution, so $40,970 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

May 2024 employment stood at 20,600, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. Georgia leads the state table with 7,410 jobs; the top three states sum to 66.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Georgia posts a location quotient of 11.42, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

One in ten workers in this field earns $30,380 or less, and one in ten earns $46,940 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.5 to 1 and the annual gap is $16,560. The mean ($38,440) versus median ($37,660) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 23 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is California at $43,180; the jobs leader is Georgia:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders stands number 554 by employment and number 747 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 0.2% of the group's 8,743,430 jobs. In 10 of the 22 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,660, 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

Dalton, GA is the largest metro employer with 3,250 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, Greensboro-High Point, NC posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $34,830 a year, against $41,230 in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA. 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

As a household number, $37,660 a year is $3,138 a month gross, $1,448 every two weeks, $724 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($35,270) to the 75th ($40,970) is worth $5,700 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,138 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $41,426 would sit between the median ($37,660) and the 75th percentile ($40,970), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $35,270, is $2,390 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

Sibling occupations in Production Occupations: Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other, Furniture Finishers, Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders, Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Foundry Mold and Coremakers, Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.