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Overview

As a Traveling Welder, you will be responsible for a variety of welding tasks to fabricate and assemble metal structures, machinery, and components. Your expertise in interpreting engineering drawings and adhering to safety guidelines will be essential for executing welding projects with precision and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate and assemble metal structures, machinery, and components.
  • Utilize various welding techniques to ensure high-quality welds.
  • Interpret engineering drawings and specifications for welding projects.
  • Adhere to all safety guidelines during welding tasks.

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How this job compares in Dallas, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $18/hr, this posting comes in about 48% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $28–$35/hr across 33 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.

The local market in Dallas, TX

We're tracking 69 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 48 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,014 other active welding openings from 545 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (21), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). 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 $40/hr, Midlothian at $38/hr, and Dallas at $35/hr. Dallas is among them.

Similar openings near Dallas, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Traveling Welder (Per Diem) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.