Welder/Fabricator (*Bi-lingual a Huge MUST)
Location
Pacoima, CA
Wage
$16 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
Location
Pacoima, CA
Wage
$16 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on August 18, 2026
Universal Iron Works Inc is hiring full-time shop welders, fabricators, and gate/fence installers in Pacoima. The ideal candidate is driven, motivated, and takes initiative, with strong skills in metal, steel, and iron fabrication.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 23% below the $33/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California, where the middle half runs $25–$37/hr across 47 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 26% 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.
Pacoima, CA currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across California as a whole we're tracking 399 other active welding openings from 207 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Pacoima, or widen the search to California.
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. Welder/Fabricator (*Bi-lingual a Huge MUST) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.