Do welders make more in Fond du Lac or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $60,930 in Fond du Lac and $61,880 in Minneapolis, a 2% difference.

Welder salary in Fond du Lac, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Fond du Lac, WI area earn a median of $60,930 a year, or $29.29 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $70,690. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $58,410, so Fond du Lac pays 4% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$60,930

Bottom 10% under$48,350Top 10% over$70,690

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $23.24/hr
Jobs in this area: 230
After cost of living: $66,490
Median hourly pay: $29.29/hr
vs U.S. median: +13%
vs Wisconsin median: +4%
Mean (average) pay: $59,210 a year · $28.47 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 22540, Fond du Lac, WI). 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 Fond du Lac, WI 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	$23.24	$48,350
25th percentile	$23.65	$49,190
Median (50th)	$29.29	$60,930
75th percentile	$30.82	$64,100
90th percentile	$33.99	$70,690

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

How Fond du Lac, WI compares

Fond du Lac ranks 2nd of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Fond du Lac area than nationally: 5.1 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

Other Wisconsin metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Fond du Lac or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $60,930 in Fond du Lac and $61,880 in Minneapolis, a 2% 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 22540 (Fond du Lac, WI). 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 (91.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures