Mig Welder
Location
Loves Park, IL
Wage
$22 – $25/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on September 29, 2026
Location
Loves Park, IL
Wage
$22 – $25/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on September 29, 2026
The MIG Welder / Fabricator position is a 1st Shift role focused on fabricating and welding a variety of sheet metal and structural steel products. The role requires proficiency in MIG welding processes and the ability to read blueprints and use various fabrication tools to produce high-quality parts.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $26–$38/hr across 184 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 12% 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.
Loves Park, IL is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 243 other active welding openings from 151 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (10), and Gerber Collision & Glass (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Skokie at $33/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.
See all MIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Mig Welder figures were last recalculated when this page was built.