Travel Welder Jobs

60 open positions — updated daily

Typical pay

$25–$38/hr

Median $35/hr across 34 recent listings with wage data. Yearly roles normalized to hourly (÷ 2,080).

Top employers hiring now

  • Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc.12 openings
  • Maguire9 openings
  • Fabcon Career8 openings
  • Phillips Tank & Structure6 openings
  • Aerotek4 openings

Travel welders (also "road welders") live out of a truck or hotel and chase the highest-paying assignments — pipeline spreads, refinery turnarounds, plant shutdowns, and storm-damage restoration. Per-diem on top of an already premium hourly rate routinely puts experienced traveling welders at $2,000–$3,000+ a week. If you have a 6G or AWS D1.1 ticket and a flexible life setup, this is the best money in the trade.

We're currently tracking 60 open travel welder jobs across the US, sourced daily from Indeed, Adzuna, and company career pages. Every listing links straight to the employer — no middleman, no account required.

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Top cities hiring welders

Dallas, TX (12)Phoenix, AZ (7)Sioux Falls, SD (5)Atlanta, GA (5)La Porte, TX (2)Mesa, AZ (2)Addison, TX (2)Toledo, OH (2)Canton, OH (2)Houston, TX (2)

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Welding jobs by state

Texas (15)Ohio (10)Arizona (6)South Dakota (5)Pennsylvania (5)Georgia (3)Indiana (3)Minnesota (2)North Carolina (2)Michigan (2)