Auto Body Technician (Flat Rate)
Location
Dallas, TX
Wage
$23 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
Location
Dallas, TX
Wage
$23 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through the meticulous assessment and quality repair of vehicles. This role involves disassembling, repairing, and reassembling vehicles to restore them to pre-accident condition while ensuring alignment with team goals and company standards.
At roughly $29/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $35/hr median for welding jobs in Dallas, TX, where the middle half runs $28–$39/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 25% 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 127 other active welding openings in Dallas, TX right now, from 79 different employers. 42 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,322 other active welding openings from 611 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Dallas, or widen the search to Texas.
The Boyd Group LLC currently has 9 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (32), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), 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 San Angelo at $39/hr, La Porte at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $38/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 (Flat Rate) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.