How much do Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders make in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Percentile spread

For Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, the published 10th percentile is $35,690 and the 90th percentile is $58,870. The difference is $23,180, which is 50.9% 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 $45,040 to the 75th at $55,660, covers $10,620.

The mean annual wage is $48,240, which sits above the median of $45,580. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD median is 15.3% higher than the national median of $39,530 for Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. In 2024 national prices the local median is $44,445, which is 12.4% higher 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 Pennsylvania median of $45,580.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD covers more than one state. The state comparison uses Pennsylvania, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD is 102.554, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $45,580 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders at $44,445 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

2 other metropolitan areas within 200 miles publish a annual median for Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD ranks 1st of 3 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 98 miles away, with a median of $41,350 and employment of 110. That median is 9.3% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $36,735, against $44,445 here.
• Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA is 103 miles away, with a median of $42,500 and employment of 100. That median is 6.8% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $45,427, against $44,445 here.

Employment share

Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (130 of 2,897,830). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (13,030 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.54 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.