PURPOSE: To obtain a fiber-formed cushioning material hardly changing the touch feeling, hardness and thickness by hot-pressing a laminated web composed of partially fused and bonded fiber having different melting points, cooling the hot-pressed web and then carrying out the compression treatment at least once.

CONSTITUTION: This method for producing a fiber-formed cushioning material is to hot-press a web composed of polyester-based staple fiber and low-melting staple fiber having a lower melting point than that of the former fiber by ≥40°C, e.g. a thermoplastic polyester-based elastomer to a temperature above the melting point of the low-melting fiber and below the melting point of the polyester-based staple fiber, fuse and bond at least a part of crossover points of the low-melting staple fiber, cool the hot-pressed web and then carry out the compression treatment at 40-95%, preferably 50-90% compression ratio at least once (as necessary, about three times). The resultant fiber-formed cushioning material has soft feeling and hardly changes the touch feeling, hardness and thickness when undergoing compression.