MIG Welder-Basic 1st Shift
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 16, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 16, 2026
At S&C Electric Company, a 100% employee-owned company, the MIG Welder-Basic role involves performing various welding tasks to assemble metal structures and parts, contributing to the critical infrastructure of the power grid. The company emphasizes employee empowerment and professional growth within a collaborative culture.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 31% below the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $29–$47/hr across 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% 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 94 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 52 different employers. 17 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 361 other active welding openings from 226 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.
S&C Electric Company currently has 14 other openings live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are S&C Electric Company (14), Gerber Collision & Glass (13), and Staff on Site (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 Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $36/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. Chicago is among them.
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.
See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. MIG Welder-Basic 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.