Occupation / job
Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At a $37,280 midpoint, Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other sits 25% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $1,061 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.
13,530 people work as Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
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.
No verified preparation time is on file for Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other earn under $34,320 and a quarter over $44,620: 1.3x, and $10,300 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 is under $34,320, $15,700 short of the $50,020 typical American job. The question worth answering before entering Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other is how long people spend in that quarter, because the median says nothing about it.
Avoid it if you need a growing industry; domestic production in this category has been shrinking for decades.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 13,530 figure counts people already working as Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $34,320 and $44,620 is the whole of the negotiation.
The middle half of this field earns between $34,320 and $44,620. That is $10,300 of range, with $37,280 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $44,620, the 75th percentile, is worth $7,340 a year more than the $37,280 midpoint and $10,300 more than the $34,320 a quarter of Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $37,280 to $44,620, or $7,340 — is far longer than the lower half at $2,960. In a shape like this an average would flatter Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other considerably, and would describe nobody.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $16.50 at the bottom quarter, $17.92 at the midpoint, $21.45 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other. The self-employed are excluded, so $37,280 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other, the hourly figure is $37,280 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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