Goodwill of Colorado

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $23/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across Colorado, whose middle half runs $22–$25/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 60% 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.

The local market in Colorado Springs, CO

Colorado Springs, CO currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Colorado as a whole we're tracking 82 other active welding openings from 51 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Colorado Springs, or widen the search to Colorado.

Goodwill of Colorado currently has 2 other openings live in Colorado, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Colorado at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Denver, CO (8), RK Industries (6), and Martin Marietta (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Colorado, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Arvada at $30/hr, Colorado Springs at $26/hr, and Denver at $25/hr. Colorado Springs is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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