Textile Product Mills: NAICS 314

About the Textile Product Mills subsector

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

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	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		99.2	99.2	(p)99.7	(p)98.0
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees (seasonally adjusted)		74.0	73.1	(p)73.5	(p)73.2
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2024
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	4,520
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	2,380
Sewing machine operators	24,050
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	2,560
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	3,200
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	5,790

(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	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$23.95	$24.65	(p)$25.12	(p)$24.09
Average weekly hours		35.5	35.6	(p)35.4	(p)35.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$21.86	$22.01	(p)$22.39	(p)$22.28
Average weekly hours		33.3	34.1	(p)33.6	(p)34.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2024
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	28.28	29.51	58,820	61,380
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	18.61	19.23	38,710	40,010
Sewing machine operators	17.26	17.63	35,900	36,670
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	18.03	17.94	37,500	37,320
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	19.76	19.63	41,090	40,830
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	17.73	18.13	36,890	37,710

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Work-related Injuries and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on 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. Information on fatal work-related injuries can be found at www.bls.gov/iif.

Data series	2023
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.3
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.2
Cases involving days away from work	0.5
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.7
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	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Producer price index		(p)162.218	(p)162.078	(p)162.075	(p)162.367
Percent change from previous month		(p)1.1%	(p)-0.1%	(p)0.0%	(p)0.2%
Import index		99.8	(r)100.6	(r)99.5	99.2
Percent change from previous month		0.1%	(r)0.8%	(r)-1.1%	(r)-0.3%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

(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	Back data	4th quarter 2023	1st quarter 2024	2nd quarter 2024	3rd quarter 2024
Number of establishments
Private industry		6,370	(p)6,356	(p)6,376	(p)6,397
Local government		5	(p)1
State government
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

This section presents productivity and related data for the industry, presented as the percent change from the previous year. Measures of labor productivity, or output per hour, compare the growth in output to the growth in hours worked. Growth in unit labor costs represent the annual change in the labor cost of producing one unit of output.

Data series	Back data	2021	2022	2023	2024
Labor productivity, output per hour		8.5	-10.9	-0.5	-3.0
Hours worked		1.3	2.3	-9.8	-4.2
Output		9.9	-8.8	-10.2	-7.0
Unit labor costs		-0.9	12.3	10.5	9.4

(Source: Productivity)

 

Data extracted on: May 16, 2025