Fiber, yarn, & thread mills

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
11k
2024
Average Employee Age
44.2
2024
Average Salary
$52,238
2024
Average Male Salary
$52,791
2024
Average Female Salary
$51,391
2024

About

The top three occupations in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group are sewing machine operators, textile machine setters, operators, and tenders, and firstline supervisors of production & operating workers. On average, full-time employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group work 42.9 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $52,661. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $46,637.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group are Davie, Yadkin & Iredell (North) Counties PUMA, NC, Rockingham & Stokes Counties PUMA, NC, and Northwest Georgia Regional Commission (North Central)--Whitfield County PUMA, GA.

The workforce of Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group in 2024 was 10,960 people, with 39.5% woman, and 60.5% men.

In 2024, 63.2% of the workforce in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group was White (6,922 people), of which 39.7% were women and 60.3% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

The workforce in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group was 10,960 people and is concentrated in North Carolina (3,620 workers). The average annual salary was $52,238, being $17,639 less than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

Monthly Employment

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−6.73%
Year-over-year decline
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 9.7k people employed in the Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills industry. This represents a −6.73% decrease in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were North Carolina (3.62k), Georgia (1.86k), and South Carolina (691).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2024, Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group had an average annual wage of $52,238, $17,639 less than the average national salary of $69,878.

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Wage Distribution

0.37
WAGE GINI

Fiber, yarn, & thread mills has a wage GINI of 0.37, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Sewing machine operators are the most common position with 1,481 workers, but the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders and Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers.

The highest average salary in Fiber, yarn, & thread mills goes to Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sewing machine operators (1,481 people), textile machine setters, operators, and tenders (1,263 people), and firstline supervisors of production & operating workers (961 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$52,791
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$15,092
$51,391
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$28,559

On average, Male workers in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group make 1.03 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

The Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry.

North Carolina and Georgia stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

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Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group is Manufacturing.

In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Fiber, yarn, & thread mills is from Manufacturing.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Wholesale trade
  3. Mining

The Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Fiber, yarn, & thread mills is from Manufacturing.
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Construction
  3. Professional and business services

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022
  1. North Carolina
    65
  2. Georgia
    34
  3. South Carolina
    17

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 39.5% corresponds to women and 60.5% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $52,791 and $51,391.

73.5% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or secondary education.

Gender and Age

4,326
Women
39.5%
6,634
Men
60.5%

The workforce of Fiber, yarn, & thread mills industry in 2024 was 10,960 people, with 39.5% woman, and 60.5% men.

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Races

In 2024, 63.2% of the workforce in the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills industry was White (6,922 people), of which 39.7% were women and 60.3% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Two or More Races.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Fiber, yarn, & thread mills workers in 2024 were high school or equivalent (4,729 people), some college (2,133 people), and secondary education (1,189 people).

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