Welder 3rd Shift - Starting Salary $27
Location
Lancaster, SC
Wage
$34,902/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on August 18, 2026
Location
Lancaster, SC
Wage
$34,902/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
The Welder is responsible for completing assigned welding tasks as part of a team to produce customer fabrication orders accurately and on schedule, while maintaining high productivity and safety standards. The role requires adherence to all company safety protocols and reports to the Operations Manager.
At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 35% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across South Carolina, where the middle half runs $23–$34/hr across 53 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
Lancaster, SC currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across South Carolina as a whole we're tracking 102 other active welding openings from 77 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Lancaster, or widen the search to South Carolina.
The most active employers in South Carolina at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (6), Keel (3), and ORION (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within South Carolina, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Aiken at $32/hr and Anderson at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for Stick. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair 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 3rd Shift - Starting Salary $27 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.