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Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials in Puerto Rico

Want to work as a Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials in Puerto Rico? Here’s what you need to know. Press or shape articles by hand or machine.

What do Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials Make in Puerto Rico?

For pressers, textile, garment, and related materials working in Puerto Rico, wages run about $21,050 per year (or about $10.12/hour).Earnings range from $20,070 at the 10th percentile to $22,040 at the 90th percentile.

Wage Statistic	Annual	Hourly
10th percentile	$20,070	$9.65
25th percentile	$20,070	$9.65
Median (50th)	$21,050	$10.12
75th percentile	$21,470	$10.32
90th percentile	$22,040	$10.60

The job concentration index in Puerto Rico nationwide is 1.47, suggesting that pressers, textile, garment, and related materials are more concentrated here than the national average.

National Wage Comparison

Nationally, pressers, textile, garment, and related materials earn a median of $58,112 per year ($27.94/hour), below the Puerto Rico median.

Employment Outlook

Nationally, total employment in this occupation is 439,453 pressers, textile, garment, and related materials across the United States. In Puerto Rico alone, approximately 240 people work in this role. That’s below the typical state, which employs around 340 pressers, textile, garment, and related materials.

Top Puerto Rico Metros for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

These are the Puerto Rico metros with the most pressers, textile, garment, and related materials in Puerto Rico.

Metro Area	Number Employed	Annual Median Salary
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	190	$21,050

Top States for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials Employment

View the states that employ the most pressers, textile, garment, and related materials work.

State	Number Employed
California	4,330
Texas	2,400
New York	2,380
Florida	1,930
Georgia	1,130
Connecticut	1,090
Ohio	1,020
Nevada	940
North Carolina	710
New Jersey	690
Kentucky	650
Wisconsin	630
Pennsylvania	590
Massachusetts	590
Washington	500
Maryland	460
Oklahoma	430
Alabama	410
Tennessee	410
Mississippi	400

Highest-Paying States for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

The highest-paying states for pressers, textile, garment, and related materials.

State	Annual Median Salary
Washington	$38,260
California	$38,160
New Hampshire	$38,140
Maine	$37,700
Connecticut	$36,640
Colorado	$36,540
Minnesota	$35,730
Delaware	$35,620
Wisconsin	$35,250
Arizona	$35,090

Skills

Top pressers, textile, garment, and related materials skills, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Knowledge Areas

Key knowledge areas for this occupation, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Abilities

Key abilities for pressers, textile, garment, and related materials, rated on an importance scale of 0 to 5:

Daily Tasks

Day-to-day, pressers, textile, garment, and related materials typically:

• Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers.
• Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
• Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing.
• Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
• Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
• Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
• Identify and treat spots on garments.
• Shrink, stretch, or block articles by hand to conform to original measurements, using forms, blocks, and steam.
• Finish fancy garments such as evening gowns and costumes, using hand irons to produce high quality finishes.
• Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them.
• Finish pants, jackets, shirts, skirts and other dry-cleaned and laundered articles, using hand irons.
• Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.

Work Activities

• Controlling Machines and Processes
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Getting Information
• Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Scheduling Work and Activities
• Assisting and Caring for Others
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment

Tools & Technology

Software and systems commonly involved: Hot technologies: Microsoft Excel

Related Careers

Other careers like pressers, textile, garment, and related materials include:

• Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers
• Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
• Sewing Machine Operators
• Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
• Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

Also Known As

All-Around Presser, Armhole Presser, Automatic Presser, Blocker, Boarder, Bobbin Presser, Brim Presser, Buffing Wheel Presser, Bulk Folder, Calender Machine Operator, Clothes Ironer, Clothes Presser, Clothing Presser, Coat Presser, Creaser.

References

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics — https://www.bls.gov/oes/
• O*NET Online — https://www.onetonline.org/
• BLS Employment Projections — https://www.bls.gov/emp/
• O*NET-SOC code: 51-6021.00