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Textile Product Mills: NAICS 314

About the Textile Product Mills subsector

The textile product mills subsector is part of the manufacturing sector.

Industries in the Textile Product Mills subsector group establishments that make textile products (except apparel). With a few exceptions, processes used in these industries are generally cut and sew (i.e., purchasing fabric and cutting and sewing to make nonapparel textile products, such as sheets and towels).

North American Industry Classification System

The textile product mills subsector consists of these industry groups:

Textile Furnishings Mills: NAICS 3141
Other Textile Product Mills: NAICS 3149

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment in textile product mills. These data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment


Data series	Dec. 2023	Jan. 2024	Feb. 2024	Mar. 2024
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)	95.3	95.6	(p)95.4	(p)94.2
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees (seasonally adjusted)	69.4	69.0	(p)68.9	(p)66.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2023
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	4,550
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	2,520
Sewing machine operators	24,410
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	2,440
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	3,540
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	6,430

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for textile product mills.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Earnings and Hours

This section presents data on employee earnings and weekly hours. The latest industry averages of hourly earnings and weekly hours are shown. In addition, recent hourly and annual earnings are shown for occupations commonly found in textile product mills.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees


Data series	Dec. 2023	Jan. 2024	Feb. 2024	Mar. 2024
Average hourly earnings	$23.82	$23.66	(p)$23.67	(p)$23.39
Average weekly hours	34.7	35.1	(p)35.4	(p)35.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees


Data series	Dec. 2023	Jan. 2024	Feb. 2024	Mar. 2024
Average hourly earnings	$20.35	$20.29	(p)$20.03	(p)$19.98
Average weekly hours	36.1	36.3	(p)37.8	(p)36.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation


Data series	Wages, 2023
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	27.56	28.25	57,320	58,770
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	17.09	17.80	35,550	37,030
Sewing machine operators	16.73	16.76	34,790	34,850
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	17.19	17.32	35,740	36,030
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	18.88	18.59	39,270	38,660
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	17.03	17.54	35,410	36,480

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in textile product mills. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.


Data series	2019	2020	2021	2022
Fatalities
Number of fatalities				1
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.


Data series	2022
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	3.4
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	2.2
Cases involving days away from work	0.8
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.4
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction. The import price index reflects the percentage change in prices paid to foreign producers for their goods and services within the U.S.


Data series	Dec. 2023	Jan. 2024	Feb. 2024	Mar. 2024
Producer price index	(p)158.755	(p)160.451	(p)158.941	(p)159.106
Percent change from previous month	(p)-0.2%	(p)1.1%	(p)-0.9%	(p)0.1%
Import index	100.0	100.1	100.2	100.1
Percent change from previous month		0.1%	0.1%	-0.1%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes, International Price Program)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in textile product mills. Also included in this section is information on productivity, presented as the rate of change in output per hour of workers in the industry.

Establishments


Data series	4th quarter 2022	1st quarter 2023	2nd quarter 2023	3rd quarter 2023
Number of establishments
Private industry	6,430	(p)6,394	(p)6,397	(p)6,402
Local government			(p)3
State government
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity


Data series	2020	2021	2022	2023
Labor productivity index, output per hour	108.768	117.807	107.296	109.595
Percent change from previous year	2.3	8.3	-8.9	2.1
Labor index, total labor hours	81.726	82.964	85.246	76.292
Percent change from previous year	-9.7	1.5	2.8	-10.5
Output index	88.892	97.737	91.466	83.612
Percent change from previous year	-7.6	10.0	-6.4	-8.6
Unit labor costs index	108.770	107.776	121.935	132.137
Percent change from previous year	3.9	-0.9	13.1	8.4

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

Data extracted on: April 30, 2024

Textile Product Mills: NAICS 314

On This Page

About the Textile Product Mills subsector

Workforce Statistics

Employment

Employment by Occupation

Projections

Earnings and Hours

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Earnings by Occupation

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

Prices

Workplace Trends

Establishments

Productivity