Spinner vs production employee

The differences between spinners and production employees can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a spinner has an average salary of $36,150, which is higher than the $32,872 average annual salary of a production employee.

The top three skills for a spinner include customer service, creel and spindles. The most important skills for a production employee are production floor, quality standards, and safety standards.

Spinner vs production employee overview

	Spinner	Production Employee
Yearly salary	$36,150	$32,872
Hourly rate	$17.38	$15.80
Growth rate	-5%	-
Number of jobs	89	75,730
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 55%	High School Diploma, 34%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	-	-

Spinner vs production employee salary

Spinners and production employees have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Spinner	Production Employee
Average salary	$36,150	$32,872
Salary range	Between $21,000 And $61,000	Between $25,000 And $42,000
Highest paying City	-	Cleveland, OH
Highest paying state	-	Minnesota
Best paying company	-	Steel Dynamics
Best paying industry	-	Automotive

Differences between spinner and production employee education

There are a few differences between a spinner and a production employee in terms of educational background:

	Spinner	Production Employee
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 55%	High School Diploma, 34%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	-

Spinner vs production employee demographics

Here are the differences between spinners' and production employees' demographics:

	Spinner	Production Employee
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 57.8% Female, 42.2%	Male, 69.6% Female, 30.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 12.8% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 18.9% Asian, 7.4% White, 55.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.8%	Black or African American, 10.5% Unknown, 4.2% Hispanic or Latino, 15.9% Asian, 7.9% White, 60.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.9%
LGBT Percentage	5%	5%

Differences between spinner and production employee duties and responsibilities

Spinner example responsibilities.

Frame spinners manage rows of spinning frames.
Able to troubleshoot problems that occur in operating equipment and processing yarn.
Hang and creel big bobbins of roving onto a machine and thread a bobbin from the bottom of the spinning frame.
Able to troubleshoot problems that occur in operating equipment and processing yarn.

Production employee example responsibilities.

Accomplish collating training for revisions and charts.
Handle set up and operation of CNC mills and lathes for production.
Machine (CNC) axle shafts from a raw forging state to a finish product ready for final assembly.
Execute production activities as directed by supervisor, including performing GMP cell culture of biologic products using closed-system device.
Coordinate and participate in Kaizen cost improvement activities.

Spinner vs production employee skills

Common spinner skills

Customer Service, 23%
Creel, 17%
Spindles, 15%
Spinners, 14%
Direct Traffic, 11%
Textile, 9%

Common production employee skills

Production Floor, 25%
Quality Standards, 16%
Safety Standards, 13%
Work Ethic, 8%
Production Process, 6%
HACCP, 4%