Welder - 1st Shift
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$17.41 – $26.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA
Wage
$17.41 – $26.11/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 4, 2026
Ferguson, a Fortune 500 company, is seeking a Welder for the 1st shift to support the fire sprinkler industry. The ideal candidate will have welding experience and a commitment to customer service.
At roughly $22/hr, this posting comes in about 27% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Atlanta, GA, where the middle half runs $25–$48/hr across 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 7% 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 77 other active welding openings in Atlanta, GA right now, from 55 different employers. 22 of them were added in the last week. Across Georgia as a whole we're tracking 313 other active welding openings from 184 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Atlanta, or widen the search to Georgia.
Ferguson currently has 4 other openings live in Georgia, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Georgia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc. (10), Classic Collision (9), and Gerber Collision & Glass (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 Georgia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Forest Park at $39/hr, Marietta at $30/hr, and Atlanta at $30/hr. Atlanta is among them.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder - 1st Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.