Pay by country

Welder pay, country by country.

One method for every bar: live ads, medians, the sample behind each number. Annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly — never mixed.

Advertised hourly rate

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Canada

C$42.50/hr ≈ £22.48n=21small sample

£17.75/hr ≈ £17.75n=41

Ireland

€18.05/hr ≈ £15.46n=22small sample

New Zealand

NZ$33.00/hr ≈ £14.44n=16small sample

Every bar: Careerjet live ads, one method — typed salary fields honoured and band-validated, URL-deduplicated, MEDIAN of advertised range midpoints, minimum 10 pay-bearing ads. Periods never mixed: annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly. Dubai monthly ads annualise ×12 (calendar arithmetic, no hours assumptions). Cells that fail to fetch are excluded, never guessed.
The £ column uses ECB reference rates via frankfurter.app, 2026-08-04 · AED via the 3.6725/USD peg · a currency conversion, NOT a purchasing-power or cost-of-living comparison.
Tax and living costs differ wildly — a bigger number abroad is not automatically a better life.

Data refreshed 2026-08-05.