milliner
Milliners design and manufacture hats and other headwear.
milliner milliners design and manufacture hats and other headwear. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include apparel manufacturing technology, manufacture wearing apparel products, distinguish accessories, use manual sewing techniques, distinguish fabrics.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £25,212 a year for Tailors and dressmakers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 5413). ONS publishes this estimate without a precision measure. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Craft and related trades workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only milliner, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 7. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Production and Processing
- Administration and Management
- Economics and Accounting
- Design
- Mathematics
- Sales and Marketing
What you'd actually do
- Measure parts, such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines.
- Remove stitches from garments to be altered, using rippers or razor blades.
- Sew garments, using needles and thread or sewing machines.
- Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit.
- Measure customers, using tape measures, and record measurements.
- Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does milliner do?
Milliners design and manufacture hats and other headwear.
What skills does milliner need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include apparel manufacturing technology, manufacture wearing apparel products, distinguish accessories, use manual sewing techniques, distinguish fabrics, sew pieces of fabric. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace milliner?
Our AI-durability model gives milliner a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.