SOC 51-6061 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $36,670. The 10th percentile is $36,610 and the 90th percentile is $45,280. Employment is 760.

Median annual wage

$36,670

10th percentile
$36,610
25th percentile
$36,660
Median
$36,670
75th percentile
$39,540
90th percentile
$45,280
Mean
$39,060

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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A welder at a bench, 2014. Photograph by Chetan Menaria. Wikimedia Commons · CC0

Percentile spread

For Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $36,610 and the 90th percentile is $45,280. The difference is $8,670, which is 23.6% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $36,660 to the 75th at $39,540, covers $2,880.

The mean annual wage is $39,060, which sits above the median of $36,670. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA median is 4% lower than the national median of $38,180 for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders. In 2024 national prices the local median is $32,290, which is 15.4% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the California median of $36,670.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $36,670 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders at $32,290 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (760 of 6,271,560). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (5,310 of 155,495,730). The local share is 3.55 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders make in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is $36,670. The 10th percentile is $36,610 and the 90th percentile is $45,280. Employment is 760.

How does that compare with the national median for Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders?

The local median is 4% lower than the national median of $38,180.

What is Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is 113.566, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $36,670 is $32,290. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.