Occupation / job
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, 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
At a $38,670 midpoint, Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders sits 23% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $945 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.
22,020 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
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 Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
From $36,420 at the bottom quarter to $42,940 at the top is $543 a month — a 1.2x ratio, which is about as compressed as this dataset gets. Doing Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders unusually well is worth strikingly little in cash.
A quarter of Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earn under $36,420, which is $13,600 short of the $50,020 national midpoint. Assume you start there and check whether the arithmetic still works.
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 22,020 figure counts people already working as Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out 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.
What the spread tells you
With only 1.2x between $36,420 and $42,940, $38,670 is very close to what almost everyone in this work earns. That is the definition of a scheduled wage, and it means the question is whether you want the job, not how well you can do it.
Put in money rather than ratios: $36,420 at the 25th percentile, $38,670 at the midpoint, $42,940 at the 75th. $6,520 separates the quarter of Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $42,940, the 75th percentile, is worth $4,270 a year more than the $38,670 midpoint and $6,520 more than the $36,420 a quarter of Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders settle for.
It is $2,250 from $38,670 down to $36,420 but $4,270 up to $42,940. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $18.59 at the midpoint for Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, $17.50 at the 25th percentile and $20.64 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $38,670 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.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, the hourly figure is $38,670 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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