Spot Welder (Colton) Temp to hire
Location
Norwalk, CA
Wage
$32,779/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
Norwalk, CA
Wage
$32,779/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on September 22, 2026
Now hiring a Spot Welder in Colton for a temp-to-hire position with a pay rate of $17 per hour. The role involves welding small pieces of A/C units together and requires the ability to read blueprints and strong attention to detail.
At roughly $16/hr, this posting comes in about 51% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $26–$43/hr across 323 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 1% 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.
Norwalk, CA is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across California as a whole we're tracking 429 other active welding openings from 209 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.
Sync Staffing, Inc currently has 2 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (27), Aerotek (18), and Honeywell Aerospace (16). 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 Torrance at $47/hr, Long Beach at $42/hr, and Los Angeles at $40/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. Spot Welder (Colton) Temp to hire figures were last recalculated when this page was built.