Welding Instructor
Location
New London, CT
Wage
$42,324/yr
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
New London, CT
Wage
$42,324/yr
Posted on September 22, 2026
Welding Instructors are responsible for providing quality instruction to students through well prepared classes, relevant assignments, fair assessment of learning, clear documentation of student progress, and support of the academic success for all students. No teaching experience is required as training will be provided.
At roughly $20/hr, this posting comes in about 34% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Connecticut, where the middle half runs $26–$33/hr across 26 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 4% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in New London, CT, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Connecticut as a whole we're tracking 35 other active welding openings from 24 employers. Browse welding jobs across Connecticut.
The most active employers in Connecticut at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gpac (5), Pursuit Aerospace (3), and Collins Aerospace (3). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding Instructor figures were last recalculated when this page was built.