Fiber, yarn, & thread mills

Industry Group

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Workforce

14.7k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

Average Salary

$41,359

Average Male Salary

$48,256

Average Female Salary

$47,173

About

The top three occupations in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group are Sewing machine operators, Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, and Industrial truck & tractor operators. On average, full-time employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group work 43.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $42,554. Part-time employees in the same industry work 25.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $17,117.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group are Whitfield County PUMA, GA, Rockingham & Stokes Counties PUMA, NC, and Mount Holly City PUMA, NC. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Fiber, yarn, & thread mills.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group. Sewing machine operators are the most common position, but the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

45.1%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 10.3k people employed in the Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills industry. This represents a 45.1% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

14.7k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 2.98k

−0.217%

1 Year Growth

± 28.7%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −0.217%, , from 14.8k people in 2019 to 14.7k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Sewing machine operators represent the largest share of positions held in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills at 19.6%, followed by Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders with 14.2% and Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers with 6.52%.

Average Salary

$41,359

AVERAGE WAGE

± $8,272

On average, employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group make $41,359 per year. This number makes Fiber, yarn, & thread mills the 207 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.361

WAGE GINI

Fiber, yarn, & thread mills has a wage GINI of 0.361, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $48,256 and $47,173. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

6.28k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±1.95k

8.45k

MALE WORKFORCE

±2.26k

57.4% of workers in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$48,256

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$13,022

$47,173

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$12,576

On average, Male workers in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

White
Black
Two or More Races

On average, White employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group earn 1.11 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group is Manufacturing.

In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Fiber, yarn, & thread mills is from Manufacturing.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Fiber, yarn, & thread mills is from Manufacturing.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Fiber, yarn, & thread mills is from Manufacturing.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.