Welder
Location
Roxton, TX
Wage
$25,307/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 1, 2026
Location
Roxton, TX
Wage
$25,307/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 1, 2026
The position of a Welder is crucial for fabricating, assembling, and welding metal components on trailers according to specifications. The role involves ensuring quality standards, supporting team efforts, and maintaining a safe working environment.
At roughly $12/hr, this posting comes in about 53% below the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 354 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
Roxton, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 937 other active welding openings from 524 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
PJ Trailers currently has 1 other opening 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 (26), Zachry Group (20), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (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 Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $82/hr, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/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 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.