Trade Programs
Underwater Welder Pay, Training, and the Honest Risk Picture
The viral 'underwater welders die at 15%' headline and the '$300K salary' headline are both wrong. What AWS, BLS, NIOSH, and OSHA actually report about pay, training cost, fatality rates, and the wet-vs-dry hyperbaric career split — for welders evaluating the highest-paid, highest-risk niche in the trade.