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Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders earn $38,670 a year at the midpoint

Starting pay is close to the middle here: the 25th percentile is $36,420 against a median of $38,670, so the first years are not a long climb.

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$38,670median a year · United States
$18.59an hour $40,120average 22,020people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$36,42025th $38,670median $42,94075th
$31,79010th percentile $49,42090th percentile
$36,420a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$50,770best-paying state · Virginia
$36,160lowest-paying state · Florida
+31%top state against the national median
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  • 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.
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  • 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.”

A short climbThe 25th percentile, $36,420, is within 6% of the median.

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Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator pay rate, hourly to annual

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  • Notified supervisors or mechanics of equipment malfunctions.
  • Threaded yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
  • Started machines, monitor operation, and made adjustments as needed.

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Place 710 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 10% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 708 Driver/Sales Workers $38,770
  2. 709 Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders $38,760
  3. 710 Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders $38,670
  4. 711 Parts Salespersons $38,630
  5. 712 Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service $38,630

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator wages by state

The 20 states where the most people do this work, of 26 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.39 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Virginia $50,770 $36,990 $36,990 — $58,660 1,530
Louisiana $49,690 $30,840 $30,840 — $54,320 110
New Hampshire $49,190 $47,960 $47,960 — $60,590 90
Washington $47,560 $38,240 $38,240 — $55,210 250
New Jersey $47,230 $37,030 $37,030 — $52,510 100
Tennessee $46,720 $31,150 $31,150 — $62,880 470
California $43,770 $35,560 $35,560 — $53,240 360
Maine $40,870 $36,260 $36,260 — $47,860 100
Indiana $40,630 $35,670 $35,670 — $62,610 230
Massachusetts $40,270 $35,560 $35,560 — $47,320 170
Alabama $40,210 $34,100 $34,100 — $50,850 1,060
Georgia $38,930 $34,920 $34,920 — $44,600 8,830
Pennsylvania $38,830 $27,750 $27,750 — $46,970 500
South Carolina $38,280 $33,330 $33,330 — $48,020 2,240
Ohio $38,160 $30,400 $30,400 — $56,430 150
Rhode Island $37,400 $35,360 $35,360 — $44,450 240
New York $37,220 $32,240 $32,240 — $50,580 160
Illinois $36,950 $31,200 $31,200 — $54,870 180
North Carolina $36,580 $30,370 $30,370 — $44,130 4,190
Michigan $36,540 $30,410 $30,410 — $43,150 130

Questions people often ask

What is a textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator’s yearly income?

A textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator makes a median of $38,670 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $36,420 and $42,940.

What is a textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $18.59 an hour; the average is $40,120 a year.

What is the starting pay for a textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine operator?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $36,420 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $31,790.

Which state pays textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders the most?

Virginia, with a median of $50,770 a year.

How many people work as textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders?

About 22,020 in the United States — number 710 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $100 of what textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders earn — $38,670 a year — but not always the same spread.

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