Auto Body Technician
Location
Skokie, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $200,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
Location
Skokie, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $200,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
At Gerber Collision & Glass, the Auto Body Technician plays a crucial role in providing exceptional customer service through quality vehicle repairs, ensuring vehicles are restored to pre-accident condition while working collaboratively with the team to meet repair facility KPIs.
At roughly $63/hr, this posting sits about 95% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 254 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Skokie, IL currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 354 other active welding openings from 214 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Skokie, or widen the search to Illinois.
The Boyd Group LLC currently has 7 other openings live in Illinois, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (12), and S&C Electric Company (9). 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, Itasca at $36/hr, and Addison 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. Auto Body Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.