Welder - Structural | $20-$27/hr
Location
Tulsa, OK
Wage
$20 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
Location
Tulsa, OK
Wage
$20 – $27/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 25, 2026
A Structural Welder is responsible for welding and fabricating metal structures used in construction, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects. This role involves working with blueprints, operating welding equipment, and ensuring all welds meet structural and safety standards.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs in Tulsa, OK, where the middle half runs $26–$28/hr across 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 23% 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 27 other active welding openings in Tulsa, OK right now, from 20 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Oklahoma as a whole we're tracking 88 other active welding openings from 58 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tulsa, or widen the search to Oklahoma.
The most active employers in Oklahoma at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (5), Stand-By Personnel (5), and Express Employment Professionals Defunct (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Oklahoma, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tulsa at $27/hr and Oklahoma City at $27/hr. Tulsa 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. Welder - Structural | $20-$27/hr figures were last recalculated when this page was built.