Do welders make more in Omaha or Sioux City?

Sioux City pays more: the median is $53,110 in Omaha and $58,230 in Sioux City, a 9% difference.

Welder salary in Omaha, NE-IA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Omaha, NE-IA area earn a median of $53,110 a year, or $25.53 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $70,150. Statewide, welders earn a median of $52,220; Omaha is 2% above it.

Median yearly pay$53,110

Bottom 10% under$44,770Top 10% over$70,150

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.53/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,060
After cost of living: $57,780
Median hourly pay: $25.53/hr
vs U.S. median: −1%
vs Nebraska median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $55,840 a year · $26.85 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36540, Omaha, NE-IA). 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 Omaha, NE-IA 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	$21.53	$44,770
25th percentile	$23.44	$48,750
Median (50th)	$25.53	$53,110
75th percentile	$29.21	$60,750
90th percentile	$33.73	$70,150

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

How Omaha, NE-IA compares

Omaha ranks 3rd of 4 Nebraska metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are less concentrated in the Omaha area than nationally: 2.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.80 times the U.S. share.

Other Nebraska metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Omaha or Sioux City?: Sioux City pays more: the median is $53,110 in Omaha and $58,230 in Sioux City, a 9% 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 36540 (Omaha, NE-IA). 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 (91.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures