Welder Salary in Texas
The median welding job in Texas currently posts at $26/hr — about $54,080/yr at full-time hours, based on 325 active listings with employer-posted wages. The specialty table below shows where the highest-paying disciplines cluster locally.
25th percentile
$22/hr
Entry-level / first-year welders
Median
$26/hr
≈ $54,080/yr full-time
75th percentile
$33/hr
Cert-stamped / specialty welders
Based on 325 active welding jobs in Texas with employer-posted wages, normalized to hourly rate.
Median pay by specialty in Texas
Highest-paying welding disciplines in Texas, based on employer-posted wages.
| Specialty | Median hourly | ~Annual | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combo Welder | $33/hr | $68,640 | 5 |
| Pipe Welder | $32/hr | $66,560 | 34 |
| Pipefitter / Welder | $32/hr | $66,560 | 16 |
| Travel Welder | $32/hr | $66,560 | 5 |
| Lead Welder | $32/hr | $66,560 | 10 |
| Structural Welder | $28/hr | $58,240 | 19 |
| Stick Welder | $27/hr | $56,160 | 19 |
| Oil & Gas Welder | $27/hr | $56,160 | 5 |
| TIG Welder | $24/hr | $49,920 | 51 |
| Flux-Core Welder | $24/hr | $49,920 | 41 |
| Entry-Level Welder | $24/hr | $49,920 | 14 |
| MIG Welder | $23/hr | $47,840 | 68 |
| Welder / Fabricator | $23/hr | $47,840 | 38 |
| Welder Helper | $20/hr | $41,600 | 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.