Do welders make more in Mobile or Anniston?

Mobile pays more: the median is $61,420 in Mobile and $59,820 in Anniston, a 3% difference.

Welder salary in Mobile, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Mobile, AL area earn a median of $61,420 a year, or $29.53 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $74,520. That's 27% more than the Alabama median of $48,490.

Median yearly pay$61,420

Bottom 10% under$44,360Top 10% over$74,520

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.33/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,700
After cost of living: $69,720
Median hourly pay: $29.53/hr
vs U.S. median: +14%
vs Alabama median: +27%
Mean (average) pay: $59,970 a year · $28.83 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33660, Mobile, AL). Excludes self-employed welders. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What welders in Mobile, AL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.33	$44,360
25th percentile	$24.08	$50,080
Median (50th)	$29.53	$61,420
75th percentile	$31.78	$66,100
90th percentile	$35.83	$74,520

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Mobile, AL compares

Mobile has the highest welder median of the 13 Alabama metro areas with published pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Mobile area than nationally: 9.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.7 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Mobile or Anniston?: Mobile pays more: the median is $61,420 in Mobile and $59,820 in Anniston, a 3% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 51-4121 (Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers), area code 33660 (Mobile, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed welders and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (88.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures