Apparel Manufacturing Salary Survey Data

This major group, known as the cutting-up and needle trades, includes establishments that produce clothing and fabricate products by cutting and sewing purchased woven or knit textile fabrics and related materials such as leather, rubberized fabrics, plastics, and furs. It also includes establishments that manufacture clothing by cutting and joining materials like paper and non-woven textiles using methods such as adhesives. The apparel industries include three types of establishments—regular or inside factories, contract factories, and apparel jobbers. Regular factories perform all manufacturing functions within their own plant. Contract factories manufacture apparel using materials owned by others. Apparel jobbers handle the entrepreneurial aspects of a manufacturing company, including buying raw materials, designing and preparing samples, arranging for the production of clothing from their materials, and selling the finished apparel.