Welder Salary in Pennsylvania
The median welding job in Pennsylvania currently posts at $28/hr — about $58,240/yr at full-time hours, based on 183 active listings with employer-posted wages. The specialty table below shows where the highest-paying disciplines cluster locally.
25th percentile
$23/hr
Entry-level / first-year welders
Median
$28/hr
≈ $58,240/yr full-time
75th percentile
$32/hr
Cert-stamped / specialty welders
Based on 183 active welding jobs in Pennsylvania with employer-posted wages, normalized to hourly rate.
Median pay by specialty in Pennsylvania
Highest-paying welding disciplines in Pennsylvania, based on employer-posted wages.
| Specialty | Median hourly | ~Annual | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pipe Welder | $40/hr | $83,200 | 10 |
| Stick Welder | $30/hr | $62,400 | 22 |
| Structural Welder | $30/hr | $62,400 | 11 |
| Lead Welder | $30/hr | $62,400 | 14 |
| TIG Welder | $28/hr | $58,240 | 44 |
| Flux-Core Welder | $28/hr | $58,240 | 17 |
| Manufacturing Welder | $27/hr | $56,160 | 12 |
| MIG Welder | $25/hr | $52,000 | 51 |
| Welder / Fabricator | $25/hr | $52,000 | 28 |
| Entry-Level Welder | $25/hr | $52,000 | 7 |
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.