Sewing Machine Operators
Education
Required Level of Education
- Less than a High School Diploma = 73.66%
- High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) = 12.44%
- Some College Courses = 8.56%
- Bachelor's Degree = 2.73%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) = 2.61%
Related Work Experience
- None = 51.57%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.14%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 11.02%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 9.73%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 8.42%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 5.34%
- Up to and including 1 month = 0.79%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- None = 27.52%
- Up to and including 1 month = 22.99%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 19.77%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 10.15%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 8.42%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 8.42%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 2.73%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 30.94%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 23.51%
- None or short demonstration = 20.24%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 13.85%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 8.42%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 2.89%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 0.15%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.



