Body Technician (Flat Rate)
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $180,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$60,000 – $180,000/yr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 1, 2026
The Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer experiences through the meticulous assessment and quality repair of vehicles to restore them to pre-accident condition. The role involves disassembling, repairing, and reassembling vehicles while ensuring alignment with the company's commitment to speed, quality, and customer excellence.
At roughly $58/hr, this posting sits about 80% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$40/hr middle band drawn from 249 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 90% 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.
Addison, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 348 other active welding openings from 210 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Addison, 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, Skokie at $35/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/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. Body Technician (Flat Rate) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.