Salario de Soldador en Wisconsin (2026)

Vale la pena saber: Wisconsin's substantial Marinette Marine Fincantieri shipyard + USS Constellation FFG-62 frigate program + Harley-Davidson + WI manufacturing welder concentration is a distinctive WI welder feature most national welder-career surveys understate. The country's substantial Wisconsin Marinette Marine shipyard cluster (Marinette Marine Fincantieri ~2.4K + the substantial Marinette Marine post-2020 USS Constellation FFG-62 Constellation-class frigate program + the substantial post-2020 ~$795M FFG-62 contract + ~10 frigate option + the substantial Marinette Marine LCS Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship heritage + the substantial Marinette Marine USCG Heritage Class OPC subcontracting + the substantial Marinette Marine Fincantieri European parent backed) supports the country's substantial concentrated US Great Lakes naval combatant welder market — senior Marinette Marine welders clear $62-98K with substantial overtime. Harley-Davidson Milwaukee (Harley-Davidson HQ + Powertrain Operations + the substantial Milwaukee HD frame + tube welder + the substantial HD ~5K Milwaukee + the substantial post-2024 HD LiveWire electric + Pan America 1250 production) supports substantial WI motorcycle welder demand. The substantial WI manufacturing welder concentration (Mercury Marine Fond du Lac outboard motor + Manitowoc Cranes + Generac Waukesha generator + Briggs & Stratton Milwaukee small engine + Rockwell Automation + Snap-on Tools Kenosha + Modine Manufacturing Racine + the substantial WI manufacturing tradition + the substantial WI Tier 1 supplier welder) supports a large body-shop + assembly-line welder market — senior manufacturing welders clear $58-88K + OT. Foxconn Mount Pleasant (the substantial post-2017 $10B+ Foxconn announcement + post-2021 Microsoft AI infrastructure pivot + the substantial Foxconn-Wisconsin Innovation Center) supports periodic large construction welder demand. The substantial WI dairy industry (the country's largest US cheese-producing state + the substantial WI dairy plants + Schreiber Foods + Saputo + Foremost Farms + Sargento + the substantial sanitary stainless + food-grade welder demand) supports specialized stainless + sanitary welder work. Boilermakers Local 107 Milwaukee + United Association Plumbers Pipefitters Local 75 Milwaukee + IBEW Local 494 Milwaukee + Ironworkers Local 8 Milwaukee + the substantial WI building trades operate substantial collective bargaining at WI industrial + shipyard + auto OEM prevailing wage rates — WI RTW since 2015 (Act 1 of 2015 private sector RTW) does not eliminate building trades but reduces shop dues collection. AWS Certified Welder + 6G + API 1104 + ASME Section IX + AWS D1.1 + AWS D3.6M underwater welding (for Marinette + Great Lakes shipyard work) + AWS D14.4 (machinery joints for ag equipment) cert drive 30-60% wage premium. Milwaukee Area Technical College MATC + Waukesha County Technical College WCTC Pewaukee + Madison College + Northeast Wisconsin Technical College NWTC + Fox Valley Technical College FVTC + Northwood Technical College + the substantial WI CC welding pipeline. WI progressive top 7.65% + no state estate tax (repealed 2008) + WI RTW since 2015 anchor the WI welder proposition.