Do welders make more in Minot or Bismarck?

Pay is about the same: the median is $62,060 in Minot and $62,000 in Bismarck.

Welder salary in Minot, ND

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Minot, ND area earn a median of $62,060 a year, or $29.84 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $99,230. Statewide, welders earn a median of $62,000; Minot is right at that level.

Median yearly pay$62,060

Bottom 10% under$44,080Top 10% over$99,230

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.19/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $71,310
Median hourly pay: $29.84/hr
vs U.S. median: +15%
vs North Dakota median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $66,060 a year · $31.76 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33500, Minot, ND). 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 Minot, ND 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	$21.19	$44,080
25th percentile	$24.94	$51,870
Median (50th)	$29.84	$62,060
75th percentile	$36.13	$75,160
90th percentile	$47.71	$99,230

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

How Minot, ND compares

Minot has the highest welder median of the 4 North Dakota metro areas with published pay.
Welders are less concentrated in the Minot area than nationally: 2.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.87 times the U.S. share.

Other North Dakota metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Minot or Bismarck?: Pay is about the same: the median is $62,060 in Minot and $62,000 in Bismarck.

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 33500 (Minot, ND). 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 (87.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures