Do welders make more in Sherman or Beaumont?

Beaumont pays more: the median is $55,020 in Sherman and $59,190 in Beaumont, a 7% difference.

Welder salary in Sherman, TX

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Sherman–Denison, TX area earn a median of $55,020 a year, or $26.45 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $73,130 a year. That's 3% more than the Texas median of $53,340.

Median yearly pay$55,020

Bottom 10% under$38,180Top 10% over$73,130

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $18.35/hr
Jobs in this area: 290
After cost of living: $58,670
Median hourly pay: $26.45/hr
vs U.S. median: +2%
vs Texas median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $54,050 a year · $25.99 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 43300, Sherman-Denison, TX). 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 Sherman, TX 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	$18.35	$38,180
25th percentile	$21.90	$45,550
Median (50th)	$26.45	$55,020
75th percentile	$28.08	$58,410
90th percentile	$35.16	$73,130

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

How Sherman, TX compares

Sherman ranks 8th of 25 Texas metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Sherman area than nationally: 5.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.1 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do welders make more in Sherman or Beaumont?: Beaumont pays more: the median is $55,020 in Sherman and $59,190 in Beaumont, a 7% 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 43300 (Sherman-Denison, TX). 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 (93.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures