Fashion: BLS Spotlight on Statistics

Fashion-related Occupations: Employment and Wages

Employment and wages for selected fashion-related occupations, May 2011
Occupation	Employment	Mean annual wages
Sewing machine operators	142,860	$23,080
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials	52,790	20,530
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	27,400	26,460
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers	25,530	28,800
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	21,160	26,760
Fashion designers	16,010	73,930
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other	13,980	28,850
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders	11,870	24,980
Fabric and apparel patternmakers	6,410	44,650
Sewers, hand	5,460	25,590
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	5,360	25,680