Welder apprenticeships in Barnstable Town, MA
Barnstable Town, MA is a smaller U.S. metro. Here is what working as a welder looks like locally.
KEY FACTS — BARNSTABLE TOWN, MA
Source: Census ACS 5-year PUMS (state-rate projection onto metro OEWS employment).
Source: BLS OEWS.
Source: Projections Central data; score computed by Prentice.
Source: Census ACS 2022 5-year.
A framing, not a forecast. See methodology.
Numerator: unavailable.
Barnstable Town, MA is one of Massachusetts's labor markets for welders. This page collects what adults switching into a career as a welder inside the Barnstable Town metro need first: how local pay compares to the state, what the available labor-market data says about six-figure work, and which statewide programs and licensing rules apply locally.
Pay for welder roles in Massachusetts runs from $21/hr at entry to $34/hr at the state median and $52/hr at the experienced end. Statewide headline: $71K avg salary. The Barnstable Town metro is a smaller U.S. MSA; local wages may run above or below the state median depending on sector mix. Metro-specific OEWS pay bands are not interpolated on this page; figures above are the parent state pay snapshot.
Metro-level six-figure welder counts for the Barnstable Town metro are not yet published; the estimate is suppressed or pending ingestion. Bachelor's-plus in the metro labor force: 83K (ACS 2022 5-year). For statewide context: Massachusetts shows ~79 of 3.1K (~2.6%). Sources: BLS OEWS, Census ACS.
Statewide welder programs and employer-sponsored paths are listed on the Massachusetts programs page; none are flagged as metro-exclusive. Metro program and association references are inherited from sourced state pages unless a metro-exclusive entity is explicitly sourced. Treat them as orientation, not a complete local inventory, and verify current intake details with the statewide source or sponsor before relying. Licensing is set at the state level: Massachusetts rules apply in the Barnstable Town metro unless a local authority says otherwise. Metro pages use state-level licensing and program context unless a city, county, or sponsor rule is explicitly sourced. Verify current licensing, local add-ons, and sponsor requirements with the official state or local authority before relying. Smaller MSAs like the Barnstable Town metro often source welder apprentices from a 60-mile radius into the nearest larger urban center; check with the state programs page for the closest active intake.
WELDER PAY SNAPSHOT — BARNSTABLE TOWN, MA
No MSA-specific OEWS median published for welder in Barnstable Town, MA. State-level median: $61,710 (Massachusetts).
Source: BLS OEWS MSA cross-industry estimates. Where MSA-level data is suppressed or unpublished we fall back to the state median and label it explicitly.
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