Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · SOC 51-6062

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenderss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 35 metro areas

Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$49,390	230	0.5
2	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	$48,640	270	1.8
3	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$45,220	560	0.2
4	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$44,420	170	0.0
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$44,350	100	0.0
6	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$43,750	30	0.1
7	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$43,680	270	0.1
8	Columbus, OH	$43,680	Not published	Not published
9	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$43,300	Not published	Not published
10	Cleveland, OH	$42,100	70	0.1
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$41,470	40	0.0
12	Knoxville, TN	$40,130	50	0.1
13	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$39,630	40	0.0
14	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$39,140	Not published	Not published
15	Greensboro-High Point, NC	$38,940	150	0.4
16	Winston-Salem, NC	$38,740	100	0.4
17	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$38,630	80	0.1
18	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$38,600	200	0.0
19	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$38,520	130	0.1
20	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$38,460	80	0.1
21	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$38,200	70	0.0
22	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$38,110	100	0.1
23	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$37,860	560	0.1
24	Dalton, GA	$37,820	570	8.8
25	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$37,460	80	0.0

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.