Travel Welder Jobs

29 open positions — updated daily

Typical pay

$34–$39/hr

Median $39/hr across 17 recent listings with wage data. Yearly roles normalized to hourly (÷ 2,080).

Top employers hiring now

  • Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc.9 openings
  • Maguire4 openings
  • EMD Electronics3 openings
  • Tindall Corporation2 openings
  • Aerotek2 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 29 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.

Latest Travel Welder Jobs

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Top cities hiring welders

Dallas, TX (10)Phoenix, AZ (4)Houston, TX (3)Spartanburg, SC (2)Old Sixth Ward, TX (2)Chandler, AZ (2)Sioux Falls, SD (2)

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Welding jobs by state

Texas (12)Arizona (6)South Carolina (2)Wisconsin (2)South Dakota (2)Washington (1)Illinois (1)Wyoming (1)Florida (1)Utah (1)