Welder salary in Great Falls, MT
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Welders in the Great Falls, MT area earn a median of $55,720 a year, or $26.79 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $99,570 a year. Across all of Montana, the median is $55,610, so Great Falls pays about the same as the state as a whole.
- Entry-level starting pay (estimate)
- $22.86/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 120
- After cost of living
- $57,540
- Median hourly pay
- $26.79/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +4%
- vs Montana median
- 0%
- Mean (average) pay
- $60,880 a year · $29.27 an hour
Pay by percentile
What welders in Great Falls, MT 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 | $22.86 | $47,540 |
| 25th percentile | $24.29 | $50,510 |
| Median (50th) | $26.79 | $55,720 |
| 75th percentile | $30.71 | $63,880 |
| 90th percentile | $47.87 | $99,570 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Great Falls, MT compares
- Great Falls ranks 2nd of 4 Montana metro areas for welder pay.
- Welders are more concentrated in the Great Falls area than nationally: 3.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.
Other Montana metro areas
Other trades in Great Falls, MT
Questions
- Do welders make more in Great Falls or Bozeman?
- Bozeman pays more: the median is $55,720 in Great Falls and $59,140 in Bozeman, a 6% 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 24500 (Great Falls, MT). 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 (96.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures