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Metro Area Employment Data for Welding

Employment info for Welding, by major US metro area. The Popularity Index shows how common jobs for Welding are in the area. An Index of 1.0 means the area has an average number of people in the job compared to its population. A higher index indicates proportionally more jobs.

State	Metro Area	Jobs	Mean Salary	Popularity Index
Alabama	Anniston	470	$38,860	4.39
Alabama	Auburn	120	$22,860	1.25
Alabama	Birmingham	2,050	$32,140	1.59
Alabama	Decatur	540	$29,220	4.58
Alabama	Dothan	240	$25,170	1.63
Alabama	Florence	130	$27,040	1.14
Alabama	Gadsden	190	$26,860	2.78
Alabama	Huntsville	330	$30,800	0.69
Alabama	Mobile	1,230	$33,510	2.87
Alabama	Montgomery	660	$29,710	1.64
Alabama	Tuscaloosa	270	$37,150	1.46
Alaska	Anchorage	280	$50,070	0.74
Alaska	Fairbanks	120	$50,680	1.81
Arizona	Flagstaff	40	$37,960	0.34
Arizona	Phoenix	4,050	$31,220	0.84
Arizona	Prescott	70	$33,120	0.49
Arizona	Tucson	640	$30,560	0.69
Arizona	Yuma	100	$32,950	0.74
Arkansas	Fayetteville	570	$29,180	1.2
Arkansas	Fort Smith	810	$31,110	2.98
Arkansas	Hot Springs	80	$26,380	1.04
Arkansas	Jonesboro	340	$28,100	3.24
Arkansas	Little Rock	790	$30,820	0.96
Arkansas	Pine Bluff	230	$32,510	3.13
California	Bakersfield	1,020	$48,830	1.6
California	Chico	150	$33,560	0.91
California	El Centro	130	$29,480	1.19
California	Fresno	720	$30,700	0.89
California	Hanford	150	$26,760	2.16
California	Los Angeles	7,970	$30,550	0.75
California	Madera	110	$29,930	1.46
California	Merced	220	$33,590	1.67
California	Modesto	690	$35,750	1.75
California	Oakland	1,960	$42,620	0.76
California	Oxnard	540	$35,100	0.72
California	Redding	120	$33,580	0.79
California	Riverside	3,500	$32,720	1.06
California	Sacramento	1,090	$34,750	0.48
California	Salinas	120	$41,440	0.33
California	San Diego	1,930	$36,800	0.58
California	San Francisco	390	$45,240	0.16
California	San Jose	1,080	$42,570	0.47
California	San Luis Obispo	160	$37,700	0.66
California	Santa Ana	3,300	$34,300	0.84
California	Santa Barbara	290	$33,440	0.72
California	Santa Cruz	40	$36,690	0.2
California	Santa Rosa	260	$40,800	0.56
California	Stockton	980	$31,870	1.92
California	Vallejo	190	$38,650	0.65
California	Visalia	310	$27,700	0.96
Colorado	Boulder	110	$42,260	0.29
Colorado	Colorado Springs	320	$31,060	0.51
Colorado	Denver	1,760	$34,440	0.56
Colorado	Fort Collins	280	$35,560	0.96
Colorado	Grand Junction	270	$36,920	2.1
Colorado	Greeley	390	$36,360	2.28
Colorado	Pueblo	160	$31,770	1.39
Connecticut	Bridgeport	240	$39,520	0.22
Connecticut	Danbury	130	$35,710	0.82
Connecticut	Hartford	900	$40,190	0.63
Connecticut	New Haven	270	$38,760	0.4
Connecticut	Norwich	260	$34,750	0.9
Connecticut	Waterbury	90	$38,220	0.57
Delaware	Dover	110	$38,720	0.88
Delaware	Wilmington	500	$41,910	0.62
District of Columbia	Washington	1,470	$40,780	0.25
Florida	Deltona	250	$29,750	0.65
Florida	Fort Lauderdale	1,170	$34,500	0.62
Florida	Fort Walton Beach	40	$32,510	0.22
Florida	Jacksonville	1,670	$33,850	1.09
Florida	Lakeland	870	$32,070	1.8
Florida	Miami	1,480	$31,250	0.59
Florida	Naples	90	$33,820	0.29
Florida	Ocala	380	$29,370	1.69
Florida	Orlando	1,990	$35,010	0.74
Florida	Palm Bay	290	$34,450	0.6
Florida	Panama City	170	$34,470	1.08
Florida	Pensacola	280	$32,400	0.75
Florida	Port St Lucie	200	$35,250	0.64
Florida	Sarasota	610	$29,950	0.88
Florida	Tampa	1,920	$32,450	0.61
Florida	West Palm Beach	430	$38,080	0.3
Georgia	Albany	110	$32,520	0.83
Georgia	Athens	260	$27,120	1.53
Georgia	Atlanta	4,910	$29,960	0.81
Georgia	Augusta	410	$32,400	0.83
Georgia	Columbus	310	$31,800	1.19
Georgia	Dalton	90	$30,110	0.51
Georgia	Gainesville	990	$29,920	6.76
Georgia	Macon	130	$33,910	0.56
Georgia	Rome	410	$27,970	5.22
Georgia	Savannah	270	$35,950	0.74
Georgia	Valdosta	120	$31,700	1.11
Hawaii	Honolulu	660	$52,080	0.63
Idaho	Boise	1,200	$27,240	1.83
Idaho	Coeur Dalene	80	$30,970	0.73
Idaho	Idaho Falls	90	$26,700	0.87
Idaho	Lewiston	50	$34,340	1.14
Illinois	Champaign	190	$30,430	0.95
Illinois	Chicago	6,770	$35,890	0.69
Illinois	Decatur	150	$32,240	1.49
Illinois	Kankakee	80	$29,930	0.97
Illinois	Peoria	3,040	$31,960	7.68
Illinois	Rockford	640	$35,100	1.79
Illinois	Springfield	40	$42,210	0.17
Indiana	Anderson	60	$27,650	0.73
Indiana	Columbus	320	$34,280	3.61
Indiana	Elkhart	1,980	$32,730	6.43
Indiana	Evansville	500	$31,950	1.19
Indiana	Fort Wayne	820	$31,540	1.57
Indiana	Gary	1,510	$37,050	2.2
Indiana	Indianapolis	1,710	$36,350	0.77
Indiana	Kokomo	110	$47,410	1.13
Indiana	Lafayette	460		2.72
Indiana	Muncie	60	$28,250	0.57
Indiana	South Bend	460	$30,490	1.4
Indiana	Terre Haute	240	$29,870	1.57
Iowa	Ames	130	$27,140	1.6
Iowa	Cedar Rapids	320	$30,540	1.01
Iowa	Davenport	790	$34,570	1.82
Iowa	Des Moines	790	$34,760	1
Iowa	Dubuque	160	$34,040	1.36
Iowa	Iowa City	110	$32,930	0.71
Iowa	Sioux City	300	$29,740	1.89
Iowa	Waterloo	1,170	$31,600	6.28
Kansas	Topeka	190	$26,870	0.76
Kansas	Wichita	1,110	$30,490	1.5
Kentucky	Bowling Green	70	$35,950	0.57
Kentucky	Elizabethtown	240	$37,960	2.56
Kentucky	Lexington	740	$32,970	1.24
Kentucky	Louisville	1,970	$31,510	1.29
Kentucky	Owensboro	540	$29,510	5.19
Louisiana	Alexandria	210	$29,330	1.62
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	3,060	$40,690	3.46
Louisiana	Houma	3,180	$39,380	14.8
Louisiana	Lafayette	1,240	$37,380	3.83
Louisiana	Lake Charles	620	$42,530	3.09
Louisiana	New Orleans	3,630	$36,520	2.92
Louisiana	Shreveport	900	$33,850	2.23
Maine	Bangor	80	$33,670	0.56
Maine	Lewiston	70	$31,940	0.66
Maine	Portland	200	$46,930	0.42
Maryland	Baltimore	1,180	$35,220	0.36
Maryland	Bethesda	330	$39,360	0.23
Maryland	Cumberland	40	$35,700	0.54
Maryland	Hagerstown	160	$33,120	0.69
Massachusetts	Barnstable Town	60	$41,090	0.26
Massachusetts	Boston	1,180	$43,310	0.27
Massachusetts	Brockton	280	$40,290	1.39
Massachusetts	Framingham	60	$35,990	0.16
Massachusetts	Haverhill	160	$35,650	0.9
Massachusetts	Lawrence	60	$40,050	0.46
Massachusetts	Leominster	90	$42,200	0.82
Massachusetts	Lowell	210	$39,510	0.76
Massachusetts	Lynn	210	$46,230	0.9
Massachusetts	New Bedford	80	$41,450	0.58
Massachusetts	Springfield	320	$36,370	0.43
Massachusetts	Taunton	60	$31,840	0.59
Massachusetts	Worcester	430	$40,580	0.7
Michigan	Ann Arbor	110	$56,020	0.27
Michigan	Battle Creek	40	$31,780	0.36
Michigan	Bay City	40	$49,180	0.57
Michigan	Detroit	1,560	$44,460	0.84
Michigan	Flint	380	$42,630	1.11
Michigan	Grand Rapids	1,320	$39,480	1.39
Michigan	Holland	370	$31,960	1.49
Michigan	Jackson	220	$31,550	1.81
Michigan	Kalamazoo	430	$31,490	1.28
Michigan	Lansing	300	$38,410	0.62
Michigan	Monroe	210	$40,860	2.49
Michigan	Muskegon	370	$34,180	2.68
Michigan	Niles	240	$34,660	1.77
Michigan	Saginaw	120		0.64
Michigan	Warren	3,220	$44,650	1.09
Minnesota	Duluth	380	$36,830	1.27
Minnesota	Minneapolis	4,430	$39,520	0.97
Minnesota	Rochester	450	$36,710	2.37
Minnesota	St Cloud	480	$33,860	2.1
Mississippi	Gulfport	200	$32,950	0.82
Mississippi	Hattiesburg	210	$30,510	1.63
Mississippi	Jackson	520	$32,030	0.85
Missouri	Columbia	90	$33,120	0.49
Missouri	Jefferson City	300	$32,730	1.91
Missouri	Joplin	380	$23,960	2.14
Missouri	Kansas City	2,440	$36,230	0.95
Missouri	Springfield	1,430	$32,020	3.06
Missouri	St Louis	3,030	$34,130	0.89
Montana	Billings	190	$34,410	1.03
Montana	Missoula	100	$31,320	0.85
Nebraska	Lincoln	640	$32,020	1.7
Nebraska	Omaha	960	$30,400	0.85
Nevada	Carson City	80	$32,300	1.33
Nevada	Las Vegas	970	$38,790	0.41
Nevada	Reno	360	$45,520	0.68
New Hampshire	Manchester	80	$44,090	0.35
New Hampshire	Nashua	230	$36,140	0.71
New Hampshire	Portsmouth	200	$41,790	1.56
New Hampshire	Rochester	170	$46,700	1.41
New Jersey	Camden	530	$40,820	0.4
New Jersey	Edison	770	$36,370	0.3
New Jersey	Newark	1,010	$37,390	0.4
New Jersey	Ocean City	40	$38,950	0.46
New Jersey	Trenton	250	$34,980	0.47
New Jersey	Vineland	30	$28,740	0.23
New Mexico	Albuquerque	550	$31,160	0.57
New Mexico	Farmington	450	$42,880	3.99
New Mexico	Las Cruces	110	$34,860	0.84
New York	Albany	650	$42,430	0.6
New York	Binghamton	170	$30,250	0.67
New York	Buffalo	1,530	$38,740	1.15
New York	Elmira	100	$34,660	1.25
New York	Glens Falls	40	$39,620	0.36
New York	Ithaca	80	$39,060	0.95
New York	Kingston	70	$31,540	0.53
New York	Nassau	1,250	$32,690	0.4
New York	New York	2,680	$38,590	0.21
New York	Poughkeepsie	170	$39,290	0.29
New York	Rochester	690	$38,280	0.55
New York	Syracuse	520	$32,760	0.7
New York	Utica	160	$31,390	0.54
North Carolina	Asheville	330	$31,990	0.77
North Carolina	Burlington	50	$31,090	0.39
North Carolina	Charlotte	1,780	$34,390	0.81
North Carolina	Durham	250	$35,200	0.39
North Carolina	Goldsboro	100	$28,580	1.17
North Carolina	Greensboro	870	$35,640	0.94
North Carolina	Greenville	180	$31,930	1.14
North Carolina	Hickory	460	$28,350	1.15
North Carolina	Raleigh	480	$34,340	0.38
North Carolina	Rocky Mount	230	$28,040	1.73
North Carolina	Wilmington	200	$31,930	0.59
North Carolina	Winston Salem	730	$37,880	1.39
North Dakota	Bismarck	90	$28,820	0.74
North Dakota	Fargo	820	$32,710	3.06
North Dakota	Grand Forks	160	$30,960	1.47
Ohio	Akron	1,140	$37,340	1.37
Ohio	Canton	970	$30,850	2.37
Ohio	Cincinnati	2,610	$36,800	1.01
Ohio	Cleveland	2,380	$36,460	0.89
Ohio	Columbus	1,880	$31,210	0.81
Ohio	Dayton	800	$35,550	0.82
Ohio	Lima	120	$32,670	1.01
Ohio	Mansfield	260	$31,080	2.27
Ohio	Sandusky	100	$32,560	1.35
Ohio	Springfield	280	$28,950	2.64
Ohio	Toledo	610	$36,310	0.76
Ohio	Youngstown	880	$32,180	1.51
Oklahoma	Lawton	70	$27,650	0.91
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	2,920	$28,900	2.07
Oklahoma	Tulsa	3,330	$32,880	3.16
Oregon	Bend	170	$29,760	1.1
Oregon	Corvallis	30	$37,740	0.47
Oregon	Eugene	630	$29,950	1.77
Oregon	Medford	270	$28,960	1.41
Oregon	Portland	3,610	$35,620	1.38
Oregon	Salem	360	$29,800	1.02
Pennsylvania	Allentown	800	$36,950	0.97
Pennsylvania	Altoona	80	$32,700	0.59
Pennsylvania	Erie	1,090	$37,040	3.56
Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	530	$36,460	0.72
Pennsylvania	Johnstown	260	$27,870	2.03
Pennsylvania	Lancaster	950	$34,440	1.68
Pennsylvania	Lebanon	230	$34,490	2.36
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	2,740	$38,890	0.58
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	2,580	$32,710	0.9
Pennsylvania	Reading	810	$34,160	2.07
Pennsylvania	Scranton	600	$29,970	0.94
Pennsylvania	Williamsport	230	$31,190	2.09
Pennsylvania	York	1,230	$37,550	2.87
Rhode Island	Providence	1,360	$36,260	0.93
South Carolina	Anderson	300	$29,370	2.28
South Carolina	Charleston	550	$33,280	0.77
South Carolina	Columbia	1,270	$33,290	1.49
South Carolina	Florence	830	$30,390	4.15
South Carolina	Greenville	950	$33,330	1.26
South Carolina	Myrtle Beach	60	$37,210	0.21
South Carolina	Spartanburg	750	$33,020	2.58
South Carolina	Sumter	100	$27,670	1.37
South Dakota	Rapid City	120	$27,230	0.88
South Dakota	Sioux Falls	340	$29,280	1.06
Tennessee	Chattanooga	1,250	$34,650	2.31
Tennessee	Clarksville	480	$28,640	2.76
Tennessee	Cleveland	90	$30,550	1.12
Tennessee	Jackson	180	$31,840	1.51
Tennessee	Johnson City	310	$26,290	1.79
Tennessee	Kingsport	410	$30,190	1.55
Tennessee	Knoxville	1,430	$31,620	1.75
Tennessee	Memphis	1,270	$32,580	0.81
Tennessee	Morristown	180	$30,150	1.78
Tennessee	Nashville	1,930	$30,580	1.01
Texas	Abilene	360	$30,500	2.69
Texas	Amarillo	300	$28,140	1.3
Texas	Austin	1,210	$29,650	0.65
Texas	Beaumont	2,090	$38,240	5.59
Texas	Brownsville	1,110	$22,840	3.89
Texas	College Station	270	$29,580	1.51
Texas	Corpus Christi	1,480	$35,290	3.59
Texas	Dallas	5,820	$30,700	1.11
Texas	El Paso	480	$23,570	0.76
Texas	Fort Worth	4,210	$32,300	2.02
Texas	Houston	17,170	$36,040	2.71
Texas	Killeen	490	$29,560	1.83
Texas	Laredo	50	$23,250	0.28
Texas	Longview	1,240	$34,160	5.91
Texas	Lubbock	240	$24,280	0.89
Texas	Mcallen	550	$26,980	1.09
Texas	Midland	540	$32,460	3.93
Texas	Odessa	800	$32,740	6.74
Texas	San Angelo	130	$23,550	1.57
Texas	San Antonio	1,890	$27,120	0.93
Texas	Sherman	130	$28,770	1.53
Texas	Texarkana	240	$32,540	2.21
Texas	Tyler	740	$33,200	3.55
Texas	Victoria	380	$34,300	3.75
Texas	Waco	420	$27,400	1.88
Texas	Wichita Falls	420	$28,560	3.42
Utah	Logan	140	$29,950	1.54
Utah	Ogden	1,330	$34,530	2.89
Utah	Provo	760	$30,980	1.88
Utah	Salt Lake City	2,140	$34,100	1.41
Utah	St George	120	$31,640	1.12
Vermont	Burlington	130	$38,180	0.51
Virginia	Charlottesville	70	$39,920	0.32
Virginia	Danville	40	$33,880	0.53
Virginia	Harrisonburg	220	$33,850	1.84
Virginia	Lynchburg	820	$33,610	3.48
Virginia	Richmond	1,030	$35,670	0.68
Virginia	Roanoke	470	$30,840	1.24
Virginia	Virginia Beach	2,630	$39,350	1.39
Washington	Bellingham	370	$36,700	2.06
Washington	Bremerton	560	$49,250	3.1
Washington	Kennewick	140	$40,060	0.7
Washington	Longview	190	$34,760	2.68
Washington	Mount Vernon	230	$40,180	2.48
Washington	Seattle	3,080	$43,790	0.86
Washington	Spokane	690	$33,240	1.37
Washington	Tacoma	690	$38,970	1.04
Washington	Wenatchee	90	$31,020	1.04
Washington	Yakima	110	$31,030	0.6
West Virginia	Charleston	670	$39,140	1.93
West Virginia	Huntington	510	$33,750	1.92
West Virginia	Morgantown	120	$27,260	1.08
West Virginia	Parkersburg	240	$31,150	1.55
West Virginia	Weirton	90		1.02
West Virginia	Wheeling	200	$31,600	1.37
Wisconsin	Appleton	330	$41,120	1.22
Wisconsin	Eau Claire	500	$32,940	2.94
Wisconsin	Green Bay	620	$33,110	1.57
Wisconsin	Janesville	270	$32,690	1.8
Wisconsin	La Crosse	140	$28,910	0.87
Wisconsin	Madison	890	$34,550	1.1
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	3,810	$34,480	1.77
Wisconsin	Oshkosh	940	$43,870	4.97
Wisconsin	Racine	230	$34,970	1.31
Wisconsin	Sheboygan	150	$34,360	1.19
Wisconsin	Wausau	510	$32,470	3.34
Wyoming	Casper	450	$38,020	5.82
Wyoming	Cheyenne	60	$33,270	0.71

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