Article: Occupational wages in textile manufacturing, June 1985.

Occupational wages in textile manufacturing, June 1985

The top wage earners in the Nation's textile mills were loom fixers and maintenance electricians, according to a June 1985 occupational wage survey. The survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, covered 210,735 production and related workers--nearly 200,000 in cotton and man-made fiber mills and 11,000 in wool yarn and broadwoven fabric mills. Wage data--averages and earnings distributions--were developed separately for more than three dozen occupational classifications in each industry, as well as for nonsupervisory production and related workers as a group. Pay levels varied by location, union ...

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