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Where is it easiest to open: All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills

43 states, side by side. Operator counts and wages from Census and BLS; licence records matched on “sewing” (title stem) for Sewing Machine Operators. A blank gate means NO RECORD MATCHED, which is not the same as no licence.

StateOperatorsAvg staffPay / employeeGateLicence titles matched
CA23511.6$45,330not matched—
TX1949.5$36,650not matched—
FL1119.3$39,254not matched—
NY706.6$49,516not matched—
NC6520.3$39,453not matched—
GA5327.9$45,915not matched—
NJ4712.6$46,750not matched—
IL4713.6$39,938not matched—
PA4212.5$42,926not matched—
OH366.5$37,740not matched—
MA3518.9$49,588not matched—
CO346.7$44,675not matched—
MO3213.9$45,681not matched—
AZ3219.1$51,879not matched—
MN327.0$37,191not matched—
MI309.3$38,386not matched—
NV2812.3$38,675not matched—
TN268.1$44,833not matched—
WA257.0$32,171not matched—
OR248.0$26,881not matched—
MD236.3$127,352not matched—
SC2221.9$42,906not matched—
IN207.7$39,288not matched—
UT196.7$33,758not matched—
OK188.2$35,667not matched—
VA177.2$37,779not matched—
CT1714.9$53,189not matched—
WI157.3$38,697not matched—
NH145.1$37,085not matched—
MT117.8$31,105not matched—
AR116.5$33,394not matched—
LA105.1$30,706not matched—
ID94.4$35,050not matched—
KY719.3$36,096not matched—
NE75.7$40,225not matched—
AL62.2$32,538not matched—
MS613.8$40,120not matched—
ME62.5$58,933not matched—
DE51.6$57,500not matched—
NM47.2$25,276not matched—
KS34.7$26,929not matched—
RI36.7$35,650not matched—
HI32.0$37,667not matched—

Axes are shown side by side and deliberately NOT collapsed into a ranking. A composite would be a score with no measured interval, and an unmeasured score is the thing this product exists to argue against. A high licence gate is a cost to enter and a moat once cleared — which of those matters more is the operator's call, not ours.

Licence data courtesy of CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Free to read, no account, always — a condition of the data licence as well as our own position.