Auto Body Technician
Location
Evanston, IL
Wage
$26 – $36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 20, 2026
Location
Evanston, IL
Wage
$26 – $36/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 20, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through quality repair of vehicles, ensuring they are restored to pre-accident condition. This role involves meticulous assessment, disassembly, repair, and reassembly of vehicles while collaborating with team members to meet repair facility KPIs.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 142 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Evanston, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 237 other active welding openings from 175 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across 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 $33/hr and Peoria at $31/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.