Auto Body Technician
Location
Signal Hill, CA
Wage
$25.5 – $35.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
Location
Signal Hill, CA
Wage
$25.5 – $35.5/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 22, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through quality vehicle repairs, ensuring alignment with the company's standards of speed and excellence. The role involves meticulous assessment, disassembly, repair, and reassembly of vehicles to restore them to pre-accident condition.
At roughly $31/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs across California, where the middle half runs $28–$47/hr across 408 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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.
Signal Hill, 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 553 other active welding openings from 251 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across California.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (34), Honeywell Aerospace (21), and Aerotek (17). 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 Redondo Beach at $72/hr, El Segundo at $58/hr, and Torrance at $47/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. Auto Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.