Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

A median of $35,060 against the $50,020 all-occupation figure leaves Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials 30% behind — $14,960 across a year. Whether that is workable depends almost entirely on where you would be doing it.

At 26,120 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.

These roles suit people with real speed and hand accuracy who want piece work they can see the result of, in a domestic industry much smaller than it once was.

We carry no verified training length for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter of Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials earn under $29,870 and a quarter over $37,940: 1.3x, and $8,070 between the ends. That is a narrow band — enough room to be paid better than average, not enough for the occupation to be a route to a materially different income.

The bottom quarter of Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials earns under $29,870 — $20,150 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $14.36 an hour. A floor that low means the occupation cannot be judged on its median alone; a quarter of the people in it are somewhere else entirely.

Avoid it if you need a growing industry; domestic production in this category has been shrinking for decades.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 26,120 people employed as Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $29,870 and $37,940 is the whole of the negotiation.

The middle half of this field earns between $29,870 and $37,940. That is $8,070 of range, with $35,060 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $37,940, the 75th percentile, is worth $2,880 a year more than the $35,060 midpoint and $8,070 more than the $29,870 a quarter of Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials settle for.

Getting from $29,870 to the $35,060 midpoint is $5,190; getting from there to $37,940 is only $2,880. The hard part of the range is the lower half, which is also the half a newcomer starts in.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $16.85 at the midpoint for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials, $14.36 at the 25th percentile and $18.24 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.