Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials salary

SOC 51-6021 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$35,060

per year, nationally

Middle half

$29,870–$37,940

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

26,120

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-13.5%

2,800 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$27,180$43,050

10th: $27,180
25th: $29,870
Median: $35,060
75th: $37,940
90th: $43,050

Getting in

Typical education to enter: No formal educational credential
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Short-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where pressers, textile, garment, and related materials earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Illinois	$40,230	100.0	—	—
2	California	$39,300	110.7	3,850	1.26×
3	New Hampshire	$38,540	104.2	100	0.91×
4	Colorado	$38,300	103.1	320	0.65×
5	Maine	$38,020	97.0	60	0.51×
6	New Jersey	$37,920	108.8	870	1.20×
7	Washington	$37,620	107.0	460	0.77×
8	Arizona	$36,870	100.7	360	0.67×
9	Oregon	$36,860	103.4	230	0.69×
10	New York	$36,510	107.9	1,730	1.07×
11	Massachusetts	$36,410	105.8	470	0.77×
12	Rhode Island	$36,390	102.3	170	2.06×
13	Michigan	$36,290	96.2	300	0.40×
14	Connecticut	$36,030	103.6	740	2.58×
15	Idaho	$35,990	95.5	110	0.77×
16	Hawaii	$35,980	110.0	90	0.90×
17	Nevada	$35,560	100.0	820	3.13×
18	Wisconsin	$35,500	94.1	350	0.70×
19	Utah	$35,320	98.9	320	1.10×
20	Montana	$35,270	94.6	30	0.36×
21	Maryland	$34,390	105.0	480	1.03×
22	Nebraska	$33,300	90.1	170	1.01×
23	Georgia	$33,010	96.3	1,010	1.22×
24	Iowa	$32,990	87.8	100	0.39×
25	Florida	$31,760	103.4	2,130	1.28×
26	Virginia	$31,220	101.1	720	1.04×
27	Kentucky	$31,200	90.2	530	1.58×
28	Ohio	$30,820	92.8	810	0.87×
29	Missouri	$30,520	90.8	330	0.67×
30	Wyoming	$30,460	92.7	50	1.11×
31	Pennsylvania	$29,880	97.6	700	0.68×
32	Arkansas	$29,880	86.9	470	2.16×
33	Texas	$29,680	97.1	3,490	1.48×
34	Tennessee	$29,460	91.9	410	0.75×
35	North Carolina	$29,300	94.3	550	0.67×
36	South Carolina	$29,160	93.7	220	0.56×
37	Kansas	$29,110	90.1	150	0.62×
38	Indiana	$28,840	93.3	410	0.76×
39	New Mexico	$28,730	92.2	110	0.78×
40	West Virginia	$28,400	89.5	70	0.57×
41	Oklahoma	$28,340	87.8	330	1.14×
42	Mississippi	$27,180	87.0	400	2.03×
43	Louisiana	$27,170	88.2	190	0.60×
44	Alabama	$26,860	88.8	390	1.10×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where pressers, textile, garment, and related materials wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for pressers, textile, garment, and related materials

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$44,440	110.4	110	0.56×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$43,790	115.6	600	1.51×
3	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$39,510	105.4	130	0.65×
4	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$39,300	113.6	1,420	1.35×
5	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$39,170	105.8	190	0.72×
6	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$38,700	108.8	60	1.92×
7	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$38,630	111.9	340	1.31×
8	Modesto, CA	$38,460	104.1	30	0.96×
9	Salinas, CA	$38,350	109.0	90	2.76×
10	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$38,300	105.1	40	0.90×
11	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$38,190	106.7	260	1.45×
12	Portland-South Portland, ME	$38,020	101.9	30	0.68×
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$38,000	110.5	50	0.83×
14	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$37,920	112.6	1,990	1.25×
15	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$37,820	106.4	490	1.69×
16	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$37,620	111.1	310	0.88×
17	Fresno, CA	$37,590	102.2	110	1.42×
18	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$37,170	103.3	290	0.74×
19	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$36,980	103.6	410	0.53×
20	Medford, OR	$36,860	101.4	50	3.36×
21	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$36,510	100.3	40	0.89×
22	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$36,410	108.3	370	0.82×
23	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$36,390	101.8	210	1.72×
24	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$36,290	100.3	130	0.39×
25	Madison, WI	$36,120	97.3	50	0.74×
26	Rochester, NY	$36,100	97.0	80	0.98×
27	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$36,030	102.7	250	2.45×
28	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$35,990	104.5	180	0.81×
29	Boise City, ID	$35,990	98.4	70	1.07×
30	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$35,940	106.9	270	4.04×
31	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI	$35,900	95.5	50	0.46×
32	Colorado Springs, CO	$35,730	100.7	40	0.80×
33	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$35,580	100.9	110	0.78×
34	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$35,560	100.2	730	3.80×
35	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$35,530	99.8	40	1.65×
36	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$35,520	103.2	50	1.15×
37	Green Bay, WI	$35,340	93.1	—	—
38	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$35,240	96.9	120	0.89×
39	Urban Honolulu, HI	$35,140	111.0	40	0.55×
40	Omaha, NE-IA	$35,110	91.9	90	1.07×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where pressers, textile, garment, and related materials wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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