What does a Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Material
actually do all day?
top skill Operation and Controlcore tasks 6median pay $35,060AI exposure 0/100
Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials is moderately paced, on your feet, some people contact work.
What this job actually does all day
The representative tasks O*NET analysts recorded for this role — not a glossy job ad, the real work.
- 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.
Skills & environment
Bars are O*NET importance/intensity ratings, scaled 0–100 so you can compare at a glance.
The skills it demands most
What the environment feels like
Deadline pressure: constant deadline pressureConflict & friction: rarely deals with conflictNeed to be exact: precision is criticalTime spent sitting: mostly on your feet / movingContact with people: moderate
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How this is built. Tasks, skills, and work-environment ratings come from the
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closest thing to "what the job is actually like" in public data. Skill scores are O*NET Importance
ratings (0–5) and environment measures are Context ratings (0–5), both rescaled to 0–100 here for
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pulled straight from the survey, not invented. Figures describe the typical role, not any one person's job.
