TIG Welder-Basic 1st Shift
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Chicago, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
At S&C Electric Company, a 100% employee-owned company, we help keep the lights on for people and businesses worldwide. The Welder-Basic is responsible for performing various welding tasks to assemble metal structures and parts, ensuring high-quality production while adhering to safety protocols.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 34% below the $38/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $31–$50/hr across 71 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 3% 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 95 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 48 different employers. 24 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 331 other active welding openings from 199 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.
S&C Electric Company currently has 10 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 (17), S&C Electric Company (10), and Venteon (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, Downers Grove at $36/hr, and Addison at $36/hr. Chicago is among them.
This posting calls for TIG. 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-Basic 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.