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Posted on 11/3/26 at 12:50 pm to Jim Rockford
There are a lot of bored blue collar adjacent people on this site that think the trades are filled with Mike Rowe types. The reality is you’ll be working alongside a lot of stupid trashy people that didn’t do well in Louisiana public schools.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:03 pm to RandRules
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While on a jobsite , don't even bother asking one for help with anything if it doesn't involve welding.
I think some of them would sit on a bucket and watch a co-worker bleed out from an injury if that co-worker wasn’t welding alongside them.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:06 pm to Loup
Think regular welders are odd?
Hang out with some underwater welders for a while.
Brave mofos but they're all off kilter
Hang out with some underwater welders for a while.
Brave mofos but they're all off kilter
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:33 pm to Loup
They're known as weldurrs where I come from.
But I've known a couple who were smart and funny as hell.
But I've known a couple who were smart and funny as hell.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 1:44 pm to wadewilson
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I know plenty of IBEW guys making north of $60/hr just on straight time. Add in OT, per diem, any other bonuses, and you can bust your arse off for 3 months
This sounds fricking miserable tbh
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:14 pm to Crow Pie
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If you think the welders are bad, wait to you meet the stress relieving techs.
We sub that out so I havent had to be around them much. I can imagine.
I went to a galvanizing plant a few years ago and holy crap...those guys were rough.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:17 pm to NIH
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There are a lot of bored blue collar adjacent people on this site that think the trades are filled with Mike Rowe types. The reality is you’ll be working alongside a lot of stupid trashy people that didn’t do well in Louisiana public schools.
Hell thats what I thought it'd be like. I started as a helper and didnt have a twic card so I got sent to a plant where it wasnt required. It was where the company sent all the hands that couldnt get them. Holy. Shite. Out of the 30 or 40 people on the project there were maybe 5 who I would consider decent people. After my second or third day I started applying to colleges.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:22 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Median income for welders in the US is $57,800, just under the Louisiana median of $62,300. That’s about $30 an hour or thereabouts. To make $150k in 6 months with everything over 8 time and half, Saturdays time and half and Sunday double time, standard in the building trades, one would need to 23.142 hours a day for 6 months without any time
We are paying them a lot more than that right now. We have to or they jump to another company.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 2:57 pm to Loup
I am employed by a large fabrication company and most of our welders make between 22-25 dollars an hour, but a lot of them are contractors who make a good bit in per diem.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:00 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Hard to imagine the person’s career decision making mind, one who decides to wear all that hot protective gear while wielding white hot tools in dead heat of summer.
Was a pipe fitter’s helper one Deep South LA summer. Just damn.
But that Turnaround money!
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:04 pm to CootKilla
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22-25 dollars an hour, but a lot of them are contractors
So they make less than W-2 chick fil a workers
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:08 pm to wadewilson
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quote:Median income for welders in the US is $57,800 quote:That’s about $30 an hour or thereabouts. That's IBEW scale in a shithole southern local. If you can't make a lot more than that, you've either already made enough and you're coasting or you're too lazy to take some agency and find opportunities.
That’s the nationwide average. Just because Thibodeaux is making $18 million a year working a day and half a year in the Permian doesn’t matter. That is the median salary gleaned from BLS, IRS and job postings.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:15 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
“They drivin round with da Big Blue or 300D bolted to da flatbed on dat 2fiddy brah. Makin dat cheese out on da pipeline.”
All I know about welders is what my bro in law who works at a plant told me. We can’t take him anywhere nice for obvious reasons.
All I know about welders is what my bro in law who works at a plant told me. We can’t take him anywhere nice for obvious reasons.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:19 pm to Loup
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We are paying them a lot more than that right now. We have to or they jump to another company.
Again, just because Boudreaux is making $16 billion a year working 9 minutes a year in the gulf does not matter….those salaries are the median salaries as reported by employers and employees to the IRS and the BLS and recruiters and job postings. If Fotenaux is making $73 gazzillion doing one 1.5” weld a year means there hundreds of millions of welders making $.03 cents a year working 7-16s and spotted overtime. Those numbers aren’t wrong and they don’t refute the fact that some welders are indeed making a pile of money but the median welder is not. Suggesting that a young person should consider welding as a career because some welders make a pile of money is exactly the same as telling a HS kid that some linebackers in the NFL make $10 million a year therefore the kid should study playing linebacker instead of algebra. The vast majority of linebackers in the US never make a penny at it….and the median welder in the US makes the figures I posted.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:20 pm to CootKilla
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22-25 dollars an hour,
Damn, how do ya'll keep any of them at that pay?
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:21 pm to notiger1997
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Damn, how do ya'll keep any of them at that pay?
This is what trade people make outside of OT fantasy land
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:27 pm to CootKilla
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I am employed by a large fabrication company and most of our welders make between 22-25 dollars an hour, but a lot of them are contractors who make a good bit in per diem.
Dang thats low compared to what we are oaying. What region are yall in? Are these tackers or full blown combo welders?
This post was edited on 11/3/26 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:30 pm to notiger1997
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Damn, how do ya'll keep any of them at that pay?
We tell them after 10 years we will train them to be a CWI.
Posted on 11/3/26 at 3:31 pm to Loup
That is for 6gr structural welders.
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