Auto Body Technician
Location
Tempe, AZ
Wage
$23 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 8, 2026
Location
Tempe, AZ
Wage
$23 – $32/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 8, 2026
The Auto Body Technician at Gerber Collision & Glass is responsible for providing exceptional customer service 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 team goals and company standards.
At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Tempe, AZ, where the middle half runs $32–$39/hr across 9 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 11% 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 32 other active welding openings in Tempe, AZ right now, from 25 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 509 other active welding openings from 258 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tempe, or widen the search to Arizona.
Gerber Collision & Glass currently has 6 other openings live in Arizona, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (29), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (20), and EZARC (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Tempe at $32/hr, Phoenix at $30/hr, and Mesa at $29/hr. Tempe is among them.
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.