Occupation / job
Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
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
A median of $38,180 against the $50,020 all-occupation figure leaves Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders 24% behind — $11,840 across a year. Whether that is workable depends almost entirely on where you would be doing it.
National employment of 5,310 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
Textile, apparel and furnishings work suits people with genuine hand skill and speed, in a field where domestic production is a smaller part of the market than it once was.
No verified preparation time is on file for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders. 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 Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders earn under $35,680 and a quarter over $45,280: 1.3x, and $9,600 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.
A quarter of the field earns under $35,680 — $14,340 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
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 5,310 people employed as Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders; 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.
What the spread tells you
At 1.3x between $35,680 and $45,280, this is a narrow distribution. $38,180 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
Put in money rather than ratios: $35,680 at the 25th percentile, $38,180 at the midpoint, $45,280 at the 75th. $9,600 separates the quarter of Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $45,280. Reaching it from the $38,180 midpoint is $7,100 a year; reaching it from the $35,680 that the bottom quarter of Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders earn is $9,600.
$2,500 below the midpoint, $7,100 above it. That asymmetry is extreme even for this data, and it means every summary of Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders that is not a median — including any average you see quoted elsewhere — is describing the top of the range rather than the middle.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders is $18.35 an hour. The quarters sit at $17.15 and $21.76, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $38,180 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $38,180 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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