Do welders make more in Ogden or Salt Lake City?

Pay is about the same: the median is $60,240 in Ogden and $60,190 in Salt Lake City.

Welder salary in Ogden, UT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Ogden, UT area earn a median of $60,240 a year, or $28.96 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $78,940 a year. Across all of Utah, the median is $58,380, so Ogden pays 3% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$60,240

Bottom 10% under$44,080Top 10% over$78,940

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.19/hr
Jobs in this area: 960
After cost of living: $60,030
Median hourly pay: $28.96/hr
vs U.S. median: +12%
vs Utah median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $60,370 a year · $29.03 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36260, Ogden, UT). 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 Ogden, UT 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	$23.08	$48,000
Median (50th)	$28.96	$60,240
75th percentile	$34.09	$70,910
90th percentile	$37.95	$78,940

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

How Ogden, UT compares

Ogden has the highest welder median of the 5 Utah metro areas with published pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Ogden area than nationally: 3.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Utah metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Ogden or Salt Lake City?: Pay is about the same: the median is $60,240 in Ogden and $60,190 in Salt Lake City.

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 36260 (Ogden, UT). 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 (100.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures