Welder Salary in Wisconsin
The median welding job in Wisconsin currently posts at $26/hr — about $54,080/yr at full-time hours, based on 94 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
$26/hr
≈ $54,080/yr full-time
75th percentile
$30/hr
Cert-stamped / specialty welders
Based on 94 active welding jobs in Wisconsin with employer-posted wages, normalized to hourly rate.
Median pay by specialty in Wisconsin
Highest-paying welding disciplines in Wisconsin, based on employer-posted wages.
| Specialty | Median hourly | ~Annual | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pipe Welder | $35/hr | $72,800 | 5 |
| Structural Welder | $29/hr | $60,320 | 10 |
| Flux-Core Welder | $28/hr | $58,240 | 6 |
| Welder / Fabricator | $26/hr | $54,080 | 23 |
| MIG Welder | $24/hr | $49,920 | 28 |
| TIG Welder | $23/hr | $47,840 | 25 |
| Robotic Welder | $23/hr | $47,840 | 5 |
| Entry-Level Welder | $23/hr | $47,840 | 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.