Auto Body Technician
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$26 – $36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 17, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$26 – $36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 17, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through the quality repair of vehicles, ensuring they are restored to pre-accident condition. The role involves meticulous assessment, disassembly, repair, and reassembly of vehicles while contributing to the company's commitment to speed, quality, and customer excellence.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $25–$39/hr across 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 39% 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.
We're tracking 56 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 36 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 175 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.
Gerber Collision & Glass currently has 8 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 (14), Gerber Collision & Glass (8), 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 $35/hr and Peoria at $31/hr. Chicago is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Auto Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.