Limited Term Automotive Equipment Technician
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$17 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on November 3, 2026
Location
Addison, IL
Wage
$17 – $35/hr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on November 3, 2026
The Limited Term Automotive Equipment Technician position offers a competitive hourly wage between $17 and $35, with average starting earnings around $51,740 per year. The role involves diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing a diverse fleet of vehicles and equipment, while providing various benefits and perks.
At roughly $26/hr, this posting comes in about 21% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 240 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% 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.
Addison, IL currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 331 other active welding openings from 199 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Addison, or widen the search to Illinois.
AT&T currently has 1 other opening 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 (11), 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 Elk Grove Village at $34/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. Limited Term Automotive Equipment Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.