Statewide pay Government data
Welders in Vermont earn a statewide median of $60,890 a year, 16% above the typical U.S. metro, ranking #12 of 50 states and DC. About 340 people work in the trade statewide.
Statewide pay range
States ranked near Vermont
See all states on the welders nationwide.
Pay by city Government data
BLS publishes welder pay for 1 Vermont metro: Burlington.
| Metro | Median pay | Real pay | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| BurlingtonVERMONT · VT | $63,460 | $62,863 | 140 |
Pay: BLS OEWS, May 2025 (metro-level). Real pay: BEA price parities, 2024. How we calculate
Pay outside the cities Government data
BLS also reports pay for Vermont's rural (nonmetropolitan) regions.
BLS OEWS nonmetropolitan areas, May 2025.
The job (national)
Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 2.4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 40,300 openings a year. Typical training: moderate-term on-the-job training.
Nationally, welders have 43 injuries or illnesses serious enough to miss work per 10,000 full-time workers, 50% below the rate for all jobs (87). The most common cause is being struck by or caught in objects and equipment.
What the work is like Government data
How often welders deal with each condition, from surveys of workers in the job.
Getting started usually takes some preparation (high school plus months of training).
O*NET 31.0 Work Context and Job Zones (U.S. Department of Labor), national.
Serious injuries & deaths reported to OSHA Government data
Vermont runs its own workplace-safety program (an OSHA State Plan), so its injury reports aren't in the federal dataset. Nationally, in states federal OSHA covers, metal fabrication plants filed 4,763 severe injury reports from 2015 to 2024; the most common cause was contact with objects and equipment (77%).
OSHA Severe Injury Reports, January 2015–December 2024 (states under federal OSHA only).
Fatality investigations: OSHA Fatality Inspection Data, events 2015–2024, all states.
Licensing in Vermont Official source
The main state licensing office in Vermont is the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation. It can point you to the right license for welders.
Official Vermont licensing site ↗
Requirements for welders vary by state and sometimes by city; always confirm with the official agency.
Union membership
In 2025, 13.1% of wage and salary workers in Vermont were union members, above the U.S. rate of about 10% (#12 of 51 states and D.C.), and 14.8% were covered by a union contract. These figures cover all jobs in the state, not only welders.
BLS Union Members, 2025 (Current Population Survey), table 5.
Cities in Vermont
All trades in Vermont.