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Textile Product Mills: NAICS 314

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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 Back
data		 May
2023		 Jun.
2023		 Jul.
2023		 Aug.
2023

Employment (in thousands)

Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)

 100.6 99.6 (p)99.0 (p)99.7

Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees (seasonally adjusted)

 74.2 72.7 (p)72.2 (p)72.9

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series Employment,
2022

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 4,890

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

 2,570

Sewing machine operators

 27,090

Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders

 2,770

Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders

 3,550

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders

 6,580

(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		 May
2023		 Jun.
2023		 Jul.
2023		 Aug.
2023

Average hourly earnings

 $22.52 $23.47 (p)$23.61 (p)$23.46

Average weekly hours

 35.7 35.7 (p)37.2 (p)36.5

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series Back
data		 May
2023		 Jun.
2023		 Jul.
2023		 Aug.
2023

Average hourly earnings

 $19.19 $19.34 (p)$19.67 (p)$20.21

Average weekly hours

 36.2 36.1 (p)38.3 (p)37.3

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series Wages, 2022
Hourly Annual
Median Mean Median Mean

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 25.56 26.76 53,170 55,650

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

 16.37 16.94 34,040 35,230

Sewing machine operators

 15.24 15.87 31,700 33,000

Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders

 16.27 16.04 33,830 33,360

Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders

 17.90 17.63 37,230 36,660

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders

 16.43 17.02 34,170 35,400

(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 2015 2016 2017 2018

Fatalities

Number of fatalities

 3 4 7 7

Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.
Data series 2021

Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers

Total recordable cases

 2.4

Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer

 1.4

Cases involving days away from work

 0.6

Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction

 0.8

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		 May
2023		 Jun.
2023		 Jul.
2023		 Aug.
2023

Producer price index

 (p)158.415 (p)158.217 (p)158.478 (p)158.555

Percent change from previous month

   (p)-0.1% (p)-0.1% (p)0.2% (p)0.0%

Import index

        

Percent change from previous month

          

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 Back
data		 2nd quarter
2022		 3rd quarter
2022		 4th quarter
2022		 1st quarter
2023

Number of establishments

Private industry

 6,426 6,417 6,430 (p)6,400

Local government

        

State government

        

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

Data series Back
data		 2019 2020 2021 2022

Labor productivity index, output per hour

 95.553 97.332 106.342 95.669

Percent change from previous year

 3.7 1.9 9.3 -10.0

Labor index, total labor hours

 96.703 87.712 88.269 91.817

Percent change from previous year

 -5.1 -9.3 0.6 4.0

Output index

 92.402 85.372 93.867 87.841

Percent change from previous year

 -1.6 -7.6 10.0 -6.4

Unit labor costs index

 118.869 123.457 122.330 142.122

Percent change from previous year

 2.1 3.9 -0.9 16.2

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

 

Data extracted on: September 21, 2023