Welder salary in Gulfport, MS
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Welders in the Gulfport–Biloxi, MS area earn a median of $63,440 a year, or $30.50 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $63,440 a year. Across all of Mississippi, the median is $51,100, so Gulfport pays 24% more than the state as a whole.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $18.73/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 2,220
- After cost of living
- $70,480
- Median hourly pay
- $30.50/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +18%
- vs Mississippi median
- +24%
- Mean (average) pay
- $58,380 a year · $28.07 an hour
Pay by percentile
What welders in Gulfport, MS 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 | $18.73 | $38,960 |
| 25th percentile | $24.57 | $51,100 |
| Median (50th) | $30.50 | $63,440 |
| 75th percentile | $30.50 | $63,440 |
| 90th percentile | $30.50 | $63,440 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Gulfport, MS compares
- Gulfport has the highest welder median of the 4 Mississippi metro areas with published pay.
- Welders are more concentrated in the Gulfport area than nationally: 14.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 5.2 times the U.S. share.
Other Mississippi metro areas
Other trades in Gulfport, MS
Questions
- Do welders make more in Gulfport or Jackson?
- Gulfport pays more: the median is $63,440 in Gulfport and $52,220 in Jackson, a 21% 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 25060 (Gulfport-Biloxi, MS). 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 (90.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures