Welder - Hiring Now
Location
Palmer, PA
Wage
$51,171/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on November 10, 2026
Location
Palmer, PA
Wage
$51,171/yr
Employment Type
Temporary
Posted on November 10, 2026
We are seeking a skilled Welder with hands-on experience working with precious metals and professional welding equipment. The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail and the ability to produce high-quality work while assisting with the LPE production process at Coherent Corp.
At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $27–$35/hr across 97 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.
This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Palmer, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 257 other active welding openings from 159 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.
The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr and York at $25/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. Welder - Hiring Now figures were last recalculated when this page was built.