Do welders make more in Savannah or Augusta?

Savannah pays more: the median is $56,410 in Savannah and $50,800 in Augusta, a 11% difference.

Welder salary in Savannah, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Savannah, GA area earn a median of $56,410 a year, or $27.12 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $67,210. That's 16% more than the Georgia median of $48,430.

Median yearly pay$56,410

Bottom 10% under$38,230Top 10% over$67,210

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $18.38/hr
Jobs in this area: 460
After cost of living: $59,250
Median hourly pay: $27.12/hr
vs U.S. median: +5%
vs Georgia median: +16%
Mean (average) pay: $54,340 a year · $26.13 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 42340, Savannah, GA). 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 Savannah, GA 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	$18.38	$38,230
25th percentile	$21.89	$45,530
Median (50th)	$27.12	$56,410
75th percentile	$28.88	$60,080
90th percentile	$32.31	$67,210

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

How Savannah, GA compares

Savannah has the highest welder median of the 14 Georgia metro areas with published pay.
Welders are less concentrated in the Savannah area than nationally: 2.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.86 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Savannah or Augusta?: Savannah pays more: the median is $56,410 in Savannah and $50,800 in Augusta, a 11% 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 42340 (Savannah, GA). 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 (95.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures