TIG Welder-Basic 1st Shift
Location
Rogers Park, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Required Skills & Certifications
Posted on November 10, 2026
Location
Rogers Park, IL
Wage
$25/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on November 10, 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 while adhering to safety protocols and ensuring high-quality production.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 24% below the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, where the middle half runs $28–$40/hr across 241 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 14% 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Rogers Park, IL, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 338 other active welding openings from 202 employers. Browse welding jobs across 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 (14), S&C Electric Company (10), and Venteon (10). 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 Downers Grove at $46/hr, Chicago at $37/hr, and Elk Grove Village at $34/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
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.