Welder Salary in Los Angeles, CA
The median welding job in Los Angeles, CA currently posts at $43/hr — about $89,440/yr at full-time hours, based on 60 active listings with employer-posted wages. The specialty table below shows where the highest-paying disciplines cluster locally.
25th percentile
$35/hr
Entry-level / first-year welders
Median
$43/hr
≈ $89,440/yr full-time
75th percentile
$63/hr
Cert-stamped / specialty welders
Based on 60 active welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA with employer-posted wages, normalized to hourly rate.
Median pay by specialty in Los Angeles, CA
Highest-paying welding disciplines in Los Angeles, CA, based on employer-posted wages.
| Specialty | Median hourly | ~Annual | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welder / Fabricator | $45/hr | $93,600 | 9 |
How we calculate this
Numbers come straight from the wages employers post on their own job ads — not government surveys, not self-reported salaries. Every listing we ingest from Indeed, Adzuna, USAJobs, Jooble, and the company career pages we crawl gets parsed for a posted wage, normalized to hourly rate (so a $52,000/yr posting becomes $25/hr, a $1,000/wk gig becomes $25/hr), and then aggregated.
We exclude listings without an explicit wage, listings that look like garbage data (e.g. $1.50/hr or $400/hr), and any scope with fewer than 5 wage-tagged matches. The numbers update daily as new jobs come in and stale listings expire.