Welder - 1st Shift
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$17.41 – $26.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$17.41 – $26.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Ferguson, a Fortune 500 company, is seeking a Welder for their 1st Shift team. The company has been providing quality supplies for various industries since 1953 and is committed to making complex projects simple and successful.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 25% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA, where the middle half runs $22–$39/hr across 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 19% 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 58 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 45 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 296 other active welding openings from 191 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.
The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (7), JCB North America (6), and The Clorox Company (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Marietta at $42/hr, Forest Park at $39/hr, and Atlanta at $29/hr. Atlanta 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. Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.