Auto Body Technician
Location
The Colony, TX
Wage
$65,000 – $177,120/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 13, 2026
Location
The Colony, TX
Wage
$65,000 – $177,120/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 13, 2026
Crash Champions is the largest founder-led multi-shop operator of high-quality collision repair service in the U.S., with over 650 locations across 38 states. The company emphasizes a People First approach to delivering superior collision repair service.
At roughly $58/hr, this posting sits about 124% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas — toward the top of a $22–$34/hr middle band drawn from 340 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in The Colony, TX, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 914 other active welding openings from 519 employers. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
Crash Champions currently has 5 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (21), Zachry Group (20), and Austin Industries (20). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and La Porte at $32/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.