Welder
Location
Surprise, AZ
Wage
$30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
Location
Surprise, AZ
Wage
$30/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 4, 2026
The Welder position requires experience in building security screen doors and gates, along with knowledge of equipment such as roll benders and Iron Workers. Candidates should be reliable, punctual, and able to work at production speed as part of a team.
At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Arizona, whose middle half runs $24–$37/hr across 139 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Surprise, AZ is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 341 other active welding openings from 190 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Arizona.
Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ currently has 15 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (15), Sundt Construction (13), and EZARC (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Mirage at $38/hr, Phoenix at $30/hr, and Goodyear at $30/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.