Iron Worker
Location
Largo, FL
Wage
$20 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Largo, FL
Wage
$20 – $28/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
A steel erection company in Largo, Florida is seeking qualified and experienced ironworkers/erectors for immediate and long-term employment. Candidates must have a minimum of two years of iron work experience and relevant certifications.
At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 14% below the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Florida, where the middle half runs $25–$32/hr across 117 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 21% 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.
Largo, FL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 264 other active welding openings from 130 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Florida.
Welding Shop in Tampa, FL currently has 6 other openings live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (22), Honeywell Technologies (13), and BAE Systems (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Miami at $35/hr, Cape Canaveral at $32/hr, and Jacksonville at $32/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. Iron Worker figures were last recalculated when this page was built.