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Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Pennsylvania

Want to work as a Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Pennsylvania? Here’s what the data says. Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut textiles.

What do Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Make in Pennsylvania?

For a textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders working in Pennsylvania, wages run about $36,890 per year (or about $17.74/hour).Earnings range from $27,320 at the 10th percentile to $54,100 at the 90th percentile.

Wage Statistic	Annual	Hourly
10th percentile	$27,320	$13.13
25th percentile	$32,970	$15.85
Median (50th)	$36,890	$17.74
75th percentile	$43,910	$21.11
90th percentile	$54,100	$26.01

The location quotient — a measure of how concentrated this occupation is in Pennsylvania compared to the national average — is 0.60, indicating fewer textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders per worker than the national average.

National Wage Comparison

Nationally, textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders earn a median of $53,948 per year ($25.94/hour), lower than the Pennsylvania median.

Employment Outlook

There are roughly 651,718 textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders in the U.S.. In Pennsylvania alone, around 210 people work in this role. That’s more than the typical state, which employs around 140 textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders.

Top Pennsylvania Metros for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

The largest metro-area employers of textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders in Pennsylvania.

Metro Area	Number Employed	Annual Median Salary
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	80	$35,260

Top States for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Employment

View the states that employ the most textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders work.

State	Number Employed
Georgia	1,380
North Carolina	980
California	880
Texas	740
South Carolina	440
Mississippi	410
Florida	390
Tennessee	370
New York	290
New Jersey	260
Illinois	230
Wisconsin	220
Pennsylvania	210
Ohio	190
Massachusetts	190
Washington	140
Missouri	140
Oregon	130
Puerto Rico	130
Alabama	130

Highest-Paying States for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

These states pay the most for textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders.

State	Annual Median Salary
New York	$45,960
Connecticut	$42,590
Minnesota	$41,600
Georgia	$40,830
South Carolina	$40,560
New Hampshire	$40,350
Washington	$40,120
New Jersey	$39,240
North Carolina	$38,850
Oregon	$38,830

Skills

Key textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders skills, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Knowledge Areas

Key knowledge areas for this occupation, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Abilities

The abilities that matter most for textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Daily Tasks

Day-to-day, textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders typically:

• Inspect products to ensure that the quality standards and specifications are met.
• Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric following patterns, using electric or manual knives, cutters, or computer numerically controlled cutting devices.
• Start machines, monitor operations, and make adjustments as needed.
• Adjust machine controls, such as heating mechanisms, tensions, or speeds, to produce specified products.
• Record information about work completed and machine settings.
• Notify supervisors of mechanical malfunctions.
• Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed.
• Confer with coworkers to obtain information about orders, processes, or problems.
• Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools.
• Clean, oil, and lubricate machines, using air hoses, cleaning solutions, rags, oilcans, and grease guns.
• Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
• Operate machines to cut multiple layers of fabric into parts for articles such as canvas goods, house furnishings, garments, hats, or stuffed toys.

Work Activities

• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Getting Information
• Controlling Machines and Processes
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Processing Information

Tools & Technology

Common tools and software used in this occupation include: Hot technologies: Autodesk AutoCAD

Related Careers

Related occupations to textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders include:

• Industrial Machinery Mechanics
• Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Also Known As

Automated Cutting Machine Operator, Automatic Die Cutting Machine Operator, Automatic Folding Machine Operator, Automatic Label Cutting Machine Operator, Band Cutter, Barrel Drum Cutter, Bedspread Cutter, Bias Cutting Machine Operator, Binding Cutter, Blanket Cutting Machine Operator, Bolt Cutter, CNC Cutting Operator (Computer Numerical Control Cutting Operator), CNC Laser Operator (Computer Numeric Control Laser Operator), Canvas Cutter, Carpet Cutter.

References

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics — https://www.bls.gov/oes/
• O*NET Online — https://www.onetonline.org/
• BLS Employment Projections — https://www.bls.gov/emp/
• O*NET-SOC code: 51-6062.00