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Welding Certification

How long does it take to get a welding certification. Does it make you more money having one?

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Daniel’s Answer

Here in Northern California the easiest way to a certification can be through your local community college welding program. They often have certified weld inspectors on staff and my college offered certs at a healthy discount from the reported $400+ dollar fee, pass or fail if you wanted to get one elsewhere. However, certain employers that build and sell products that the public would come in contact with during it's lifespan, have a certification standard that requires their welders to be certified. So during their training and orientation they will let you know if that has to happen in house or another way to get you certified.

The amount of time it would take to get varies from person to person and it has everything to do with how much practice you do on your own time. If you don't practice even a little, you'll have a tough time understanding what's going on under your arc and getting certified will be near impossible unless you know what you're doing.

Hope this helps and good luck.
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Antonio’s Answer

Look here hand, personally from my own experience I’ve never held an actual AWS certificate for any type of welding. That being said I’m still working shutdowns, turn around and doing structural welding. Most companies regardless of certificates or not are going to put you through their own type of weld test. This goes for pipeline as wells as far as I know because each gas company is going to make you pass a weld test for each project and only give you papers for their company and won’t be accepted anywhere else. Long story short any good company will make you run a weld test and either bend/X-ray it. The only real certs I’ve ever seen put to work are NCCER papers but I’ve only ever seen Turner ask for them and they got paid maybe 1-2 dollars more than everyone else. Best of luck 👍
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Mohammad’s Answer

About 1 year. Getting a certificate can increase the salary rate.
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