Welder
Location
Tomball, TX
Wage
$22 – $26/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 8, 2026
Location
Tomball, TX
Wage
$22 – $26/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 8, 2026
The Welder position in Tomball, TX involves hands-on tasks focused on accuracy and efficiency while maintaining safety and quality standards in the yard and warehouse. This role is a contract-to-hire opportunity with a structured work schedule.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $22–$34/hr across 394 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% 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.
Tomball, TX currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,014 other active welding openings from 545 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Tomball, 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. 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.