Welder
$101,251 earning potential
$101,251
High-end Earners in
North Carolina ( Top 10% )
$73,531
median annual wage
$45
median hourly wage
Responsibilities
- Utilize welding machines to cut or fuse metals such as aluminum or steel
- Understand blueprints and calculate dimensions and specifications for the welds
- Safely clean, set up and maintain the equipment
- Supervise the process to prevent overheating
- Ignite torches or start power supplies
- Examine products to find defects and to rework defective parts
- Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies before assembling them, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers
- Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment
- Inspect structures or materials to be welded
North Carolina Job Outlook
1,329
Average annual job openings
11,808
Number of jobs by 2028
+1%
Expected growth from 2023 to 2028