Auto Body Technician
Location
Gary, IN
Wage
$24 – $29/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 15, 2026
Location
Gary, IN
Wage
$24 – $29/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 15, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through quality vehicle repairs, ensuring vehicles are restored to pre-accident condition. The role involves disassembling, repairing, and reassembling vehicles while collaborating with team members to meet key performance indicators.
At roughly $27/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana — toward the top of a $21–$29/hr middle band drawn from 67 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Gary, IN is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 130 other active welding openings from 103 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Indiana.
The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (9), Forest River (4), and Lozier Corporation (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 Indiana, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Indianapolis at $24/hr, Fort Wayne at $24/hr, and Middlebury at $21/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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.