Maintenance Mechanic - FT
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Wage
$30.47 – $41/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Wage
$30.47 – $41/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 11, 2026
California Rehabilitation Institute, a Joint Venture with Cedars, UCLA, and Select Medical, is seeking a Maintenance Mechanic for a full-time position in Century City - Los Angeles, CA. The role involves performing general building, mechanical, and preventive maintenance tasks while ensuring patient and employee safety.
At roughly $36/hr, this posting comes in about 30% below the $51/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, where the middle half runs $37–$69/hr across 55 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 16% 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.
We're tracking 98 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 48 different employers. 32 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 498 other active welding openings from 234 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Relativity Space (17), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (13). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Segundo at $53/hr, Los Angeles at $51/hr, and Long Beach at $50/hr. Los Angeles is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Maintenance Mechanic - FT figures were last recalculated when this page was built.