Welder Salary in Missouri
The median welding job in Missouri currently posts at $24/hr — about $49,920/yr at full-time hours, based on 55 active listings with employer-posted wages. The specialty table below shows where the highest-paying disciplines cluster locally.
25th percentile
$21/hr
Entry-level / first-year welders
Median
$24/hr
≈ $49,920/yr full-time
75th percentile
$29/hr
Cert-stamped / specialty welders
Based on 55 active welding jobs in Missouri with employer-posted wages, normalized to hourly rate.
Median pay by specialty in Missouri
Highest-paying welding disciplines in Missouri, based on employer-posted wages.
| Specialty | Median hourly | ~Annual | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welder / Fabricator | $24/hr | $49,920 | 19 |
| MIG Welder | $22/hr | $45,760 | 34 |
| TIG Welder | $22/hr | $45,760 | 23 |
| Stick Welder | $22/hr | $45,760 | 14 |
| Flux-Core Welder | $21/hr | $43,680 | 5 |
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.