Wanted: General laborer / fabricator / installer in a sign shop
Location
Sunland, CA
Wage
$12 – $19/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 24, 2026
Location
Sunland, CA
Wage
$12 – $19/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on September 24, 2026
A general laborer, fabricator, and installer is needed for a sign shop and event company in the LA area. The role involves fabricating and installing banners and backdrops for events while working with a small team in a friendly, family-owned business.
At roughly $16/hr, this posting comes in about 45% below the $28/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California, where the middle half runs $25–$36/hr across 56 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 0% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Sunland, CA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across California as a whole we're tracking 433 other active welding openings from 200 employers. Browse welding jobs across California.
Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA currently has 15 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 (28), Honeywell Aerospace (17), 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 Long Beach at $43/hr, El Segundo at $43/hr, and Torrance at $43/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. Wanted: General laborer / fabricator / installer in a sign shop figures were last recalculated when this page was built.