Welder
$63,480 earning potential
$63,480
High-end Earners in
North Carolina ( Top 10% )
$47,200
median annual wage
$23
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
1,763
Average annual job openings
14,069
Number of jobs by 2030
+1%
Expected growth from 2024 to 2030