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Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Tennessee

Want to work as a Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Tennessee? Here’s what you need to know. Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut textiles.

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

For a textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders working in Tennessee, the median annual wage is $38,500 per year (or roughly $18.51/hour).Annual wages span from $29,140 at the 10th percentile to $44,350 at the 90th percentile.

Wage Statistic	Annual	Hourly
10th percentile	$29,140	$14.01
25th percentile	$32,350	$15.55
Median (50th)	$38,500	$18.51
75th percentile	$41,960	$20.18
90th percentile	$44,350	$21.32

The job concentration index in Tennessee nationwide is 1.94, suggesting that textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders are more concentrated here 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 Tennessee median.

Employment Outlook

Nationally, total employment in this occupation is 651,718 textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders across the United States. In Tennessee alone, about 370 people work in this role. That’s more than the typical state, which employs around 140 textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders.

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

The metro areas below employ the most textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders in Tennessee.

Metro Area	Number Employed	Annual Median Salary
Knoxville, TN	70	$38,500
Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN	50	$35,590
Chattanooga, TN-GA	30	$39,540

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

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

Knowledge Areas

Core 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

Common tasks include:

• 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

Software and systems commonly involved: Hot technologies: Autodesk AutoCAD

Related Careers

Careers similar 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