Custom Fabricator/Installer for Activations/Sets/Retail Build-Outs - tv / film / video / radio - job employment -...
Location
Vallejo, CA
Wage
$40 – $50/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on July 27, 2026
Location
Vallejo, CA
Wage
$40 – $50/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on July 27, 2026
Drop Works is an established custom fabrication and scenic building firm in the Bay Area, seeking full-time fabricator/installers with experience in set building, trade show booths, and custom fabrication for retail build-outs and events. The company has been a leader in the industry for over 25 years, operating a large fabrication shop and commercial photo studio in Vallejo, CA.
At roughly $45/hr, this posting sits about 36% above the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California — toward the top of a $25–$36/hr middle band drawn from 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 89% 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.
Vallejo, CA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 208 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.
Drop Works currently has 1 other opening live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (20), Aerotek (17), and Volt (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Santa Ana at $48/hr, Los Angeles at $38/hr, and Hawthorne at $36/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. Custom Fabricator/Installer for Activations/Sets/Retail Build-Outs - tv / film / video / radio - job employment -... figures were last recalculated when this page was built.