Tig Welder - $24 - $30/hr
Location
Robein, IL
Wage
$24 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on October 27, 2026
Location
Robein, IL
Wage
$24 – $30/hr
Employment Type
Contract
Posted on October 27, 2026
The TIG Welder position involves TIG and MIG welding in a production environment, focusing on manual and fixture welding of metal components. The role requires reading blueprints, operating welding equipment, and ensuring quality and safety standards are met.
At roughly $27/hr, this posting comes in about 13% below the $31/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $26–$41/hr across 184 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 30% 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 Robein, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 242 other active welding openings from 146 employers. Browse welding jobs across Illinois.
Aerotek currently has 4 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 Gerber Collision & Glass (12), S&C Electric Company (9), and Crash Champions (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, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Bedford Park at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
See all TIG welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Tig Welder - $24 - $30/hr figures were last recalculated when this page was built.