Welder-Basic 2nd Shift
Location
Rogers Park, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 9, 2026
Location
Rogers Park, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 9, 2026
At S&C Electric Company, a 100% employee-owned company, we help keep the lights on for people and businesses worldwide. The Welder-Basic is responsible for performing various welding tasks to assemble metal structures and parts, ensuring high-quality production while adhering to safety protocols.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 142 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 32% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Rogers Park, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 175 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
S&C Electric Company currently has 13 other openings live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (9), and Aerotek (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $33/hr and Peoria at $31/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder-Basic 2nd Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.