Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

At a $38,760 midpoint, Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders sits 23% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $938 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.

Employment as Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders is 9,000 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

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 Cutting Machine Setters, 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.

$10,990 separates the bottom quarter at $34,230 from the top quarter at $45,220, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pays less than moving out of it would.

The bottom quarter of Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earns under $34,230 — $15,790 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $16.45 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 field with domestic depth; much of this production has moved offshore and stayed there.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 9,000 figure counts people already working as Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

At 1.3x between $34,230 and $45,220, this is a narrow distribution. $38,760 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.

The middle half of this field earns between $34,230 and $45,220. That is $10,990 of range, with $38,760 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $45,220. Reaching it from the $38,760 midpoint is $6,460 a year; reaching it from the $34,230 that the bottom quarter of Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earn is $10,990.

$6,460 separates $38,760 from the $45,220 top quarter, while only $4,530 separates it from $34,230. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $18.63 at the midpoint for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, $16.45 at the 25th percentile and $21.74 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.