Welder Helper / Shop Hand - 1099
Location
Montgomery, TX
Wage
$14 – $18/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 29, 2026
Location
Montgomery, TX
Wage
$14 – $18/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 29, 2026
Looking for a hard-working individual ready to take a position in an up and coming company that strives to build the highest quality of work for selective customers. The role involves various tasks including cleaning parts, cutting, grinding, and maintaining a clean and organized work area.
Contract
At roughly $16/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Texas, where the middle half runs $23–$35/hr across 433 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 2% 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.
Montgomery, TX is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,220 other active welding openings from 592 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Texas.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (26), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (24), and Zachry Group (21). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Midlothian at $38/hr, Pasadena at $37/hr, and Dallas at $35/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. Welder Helper / Shop Hand - 1099 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.