Custom Fabricator/Installer for Activations/Sets/Retail Build-Outs - skilled trades / artisan - job employment -...
Location
Vallejo, CA
Wage
$40 – $48/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Vallejo, CA
Wage
$40 – $48/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Drop Works is an established custom fabrication and scenic building company in the Bay Area, seeking full-time fabricator/installers with experience in custom fabrication and onsite installation for activations, retail build-outs, and events.
At roughly $44/hr, this posting sits about 47% above the $30/hr median for welder fabricator jobs across California — toward the top of a $24–$40/hr middle band drawn from 50 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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.
Vallejo, CA currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 234 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Vallejo, or widen the search to California.
Drop Works currently has 3 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 (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (14). 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 Long Beach at $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/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. Custom Fabricator/Installer for Activations/Sets/Retail Build-Outs - skilled trades / artisan - job employment -... figures were last recalculated when this page was built.