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Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers earn $37,800 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 7,450 people in this work, the midpoint is $37,800 a year, with most starting near $31,270.

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$37,800median a year · United States
$18.17an hour $39,160average 7,450people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$31,27025th $37,800median $45,67075th
$28,21010th percentile $52,55090th percentile
$31,270a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$52,520best-paying state · Tennessee
$26,340lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+39%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $52,520 in Tennessee and $26,340 in Mississippi — a gap of $26,180 a year.

Shoe and leather worker earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Nearby work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers$37,800
Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers$62,750+$24,950 Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers$46,350+$8,550 Upholsterers$46,340+$8,540 Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$38,670+$870 Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders$38,180+$380 Sewing Machine Operators$36,670−$1,130

Ranked 724 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 8% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 722 Cutters and Trimmers, Hand $38,020
  2. 723 Receptionists and information clerks $38,010
  3. 724 Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers $37,800
  4. 725 Passenger Attendants $37,720
  5. 726 Tire Repairers and Changers $37,710

Shoe and leather worker wages, state by state

The 22 states where the most people do this work, of 28 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.72 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Tennessee $52,520 $34,030 $34,030 — $52,550 330
Washington $48,310 $36,420 $36,420 — $90,210 100
New Jersey $46,790 $35,000 $35,000 — $59,340 230
Massachusetts $46,550 $36,180 $36,180 — $54,980 500
Arizona $45,510 $36,570 $36,570 — $45,510 120
Wisconsin $44,000 $31,570 $31,570 — $48,060 460
Illinois $43,730 $31,200 $31,200 — $58,920 200
Minnesota $42,940 $34,030 $34,030 — $57,970 200
Missouri $38,700 $28,780 $28,780 — $49,070 240
Utah $38,700 $33,080 $33,080 — $49,100 70
California $38,130 $35,860 $35,860 — $47,650 510
Maine $38,030 $36,040 $36,040 — $46,660 160
North Carolina $38,020 $30,160 $30,160 — $47,410 300
Virginia $37,230 $28,820 $28,820 — $48,150 70
Indiana $36,810 $29,420 $29,420 — $74,940 80
Colorado $36,170 $32,450 $32,450 — $46,380 60
Ohio $35,950 $26,480 $26,480 — $46,210 120
Michigan $35,940 $30,180 $30,180 — $48,050 150
Florida $35,540 $28,760 $28,760 — $47,610 400
Pennsylvania $34,870 $28,210 $28,210 — $53,900 120
Georgia $32,470 $29,110 $29,110 — $41,020 70
Texas $30,620 $17,910 $17,910 — $42,720 1,860

No estimate is published for 1 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

Shoe and leather worker pay rate, hourly and yearly

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$37,794a year

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  • Dyed, soaked, polished, painted, stamped, stitched, stained, buffed, or engraved leather or other materials to obtain desired effects, decorations, or shapes.
  • Cut out parts, following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses.
  • Constructed, decorated, or repaired leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and thread, leather lacing, glue, clamps, hand tools, or rivets.

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Questions people ask most

What is a shoe and leather worker’s yearly income?

A shoe and leather worker makes a median of $37,800 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $31,270 and $45,670.

What is a shoe and leather worker’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $18.17 an hour; the average is $39,160 a year.

What is the starting pay for a shoe and leather worker?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $31,270 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $28,210.

Which state pays shoe and leather workers and repairers the most?

Tennessee, with a median of $52,520 a year.

How many people work as shoe and leather workers and repairers?

About 7,450 in the United States — number 724 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $110 of what shoe and leather workers and repairers earn — $37,800 a year — but not always the same spread.

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