Location
Sacramento, CA
Wage
$30 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 28, 2026
The Carport Company builds, repairs, and maintains carports, garage doors, trash enclosures, and other site structures for apartment communities and commercial properties across the Sacramento region. They are seeking an experienced, well-rounded tech to join their crew.
Full-time
At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $32/hr median for welding jobs across California, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 321 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 52% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.
Sacramento, CA currently has 8 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 California as a whole we're tracking 418 other active welding openings from 206 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Sacramento, or widen the search to California.
Welding Shop in Sacramento, CA currently has 9 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (27), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (16), and Honeywell Aerospace (15). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Santa Ana at $48/hr, Long Beach at $43/hr, and Los Angeles at $42/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG and Stick 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. Stick (SMAW) burns a flux-coated consumable rod and needs no shielding gas, so it works in wind, rain, and on dirty or rusted steel. That tolerance for bad conditions keeps it the default for field, structural, and repair work.
See all construction 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. Experienced Construction Tech - Metal Work / Welding a Plus ($30-$35/h - skilled trades / artisan - job employment -... figures were last recalculated when this page was built.