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California Welding Institute LLC (California): 31 training programs — cost, completion, employment and earnings from the federal record
California Welding Institute LLC (Private For-Profit), 32081 Corydon Street, Lake Elsinore has 31 programs on California’s Training Provider Results list leading to: AWS D1.1 Structural Steel certification with SMAW and FCAW, ASME Section IX Certification; AWS D1.1 with SMAW, FCAW and/or AWS D1.8; AWS D9.1 Welder Certification; Certified Welding Inspector; L.A City Welder Certification; WELDING CERTIFICATION and 5 more. The table prints what the provider reported for each: the published cost, how many students exited, the share who completed, the share employed in the second quarter after exit, and their median earnings in that quarter — as reported, with the federal definition of every column below. Nothing is ranked, imputed or estimated. Snapshot taken 2026-09-02.
| # | Program (provider’s page) · credential · code | Published cost basis | Length | Exited | Completed | Employed Q2 after exit | Median earnings, Q2 (one quarter) | Avg WIOA ITA $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bundle 1 - All Around Welder: Structural And Pressure Piping | $21,220 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | 30 | 77% | 68% | $5,078 | $19,568 |
| 2 | Bundle 10 - Underwater welder (dry welding) | $20,820 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Bundle 2 - Ironworker Welding Career | $21,220 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | 9 | 100% | 100% | $17,760 | $10,175 |
| 4 | Bundle 3 - Process Pressure Piping Welder | $20,970 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | 10 | 80% | 100% | $13,000 | — |
| 5 | Bundle 4 - Pipeline Welder | $20,980 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Bundle 5 - Aerospace Welder | $21,500 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | 17 | 88% | 73% | $19,500 | — |
| 7 | Bundle 6 - Food and Beverage Processing Industry Welder | $14,475 | 16 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Bundle 7 - Structure light Gage welder (decking and framing) | $21,628 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Bundle 8 -Motorsport Welder | $21,325 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | 7 | 57% | 80% | $10,140 | — |
| 10 | Bundle 9 - I-CAR automotive welder | $21,250 | 24 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | PDH Destructive Testing Class | $980 | 1 wk · 10 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | PDH- LAWC L.A. City Welder Certification Written Exam Preparation Class | $975 | 1 wk · 10 hrs | 27 | 93% | 67% | — | — |
| 13 | PDH-CWI- CWI Exam preparation course | $3,100 | 3 wk · 20 hrs | 42 | 100% | 52% | — | — |
| 14 | W101 - SMAW AWS D1.1/L.A City Welder Certification Steel Plate | $7,460 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | 14 | 100% | — | — | $7,138 |
| 15 | W102 - FCAW AWS D1.1/L.A City Welder Certification Steel Plate | $7,500 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | W103 - SMAW AWS D1.1/L.A City Welder Certification Structural steel pipe/tubular | $7,780 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | W104 - FCAW-G/ FCAW-S AWS D1.1 Welder Certification Structural steel pipe/Tubula | $7,500 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | W105 - FCAW-S AWS D1.8/Welder Certification Structural steel SEISMIC Application | $7,500 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | W106 - GMAW AWS D1.3 Structural Welding Sheet Steel | $8,050 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | W107 - FCAW-S AWS D1.3 Structural Welding Sheet Steel | $8,050 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | W108 - SMAW AWS D1.3 Structural Welding Sheet Steel | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | W109 - SMAW AWS D3.6 underwater dry welding (class a welds) | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | W201 - SMAW ASME Section IX AWS B2.1 Basic pipe welding course - all uphill | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | W202 - SMAW ASME Section IX AWS B2.1 Basic pipe welding course - downhill/uphill | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | W203 GTAW/SMAW Combo welder basic asme section ix, aws b2.1 pipe welding | $7,695 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | W204 - GTAW/SMAW Combo Welder Advanced ASME Section IX, AWS B2.1 Pipe Welding | $7,695 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | W205 - GTAW advanced asme section ix, aws b2.1 stainless steel and carbon steel | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | W211 - SMAW API 1104 Basic pipeline welding - all downhill - petrochemical and n | $7,620 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 29 | W301-CS/AL/SS - GTAW BASIC AWS D9.1 SHEET METAL WELDING | $7,800 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | 8 | 100% | 50% | $20,000 | — |
| 30 | W302-SS - GTAW ADVANCED AWS D18.1 STAINLESS STEEL TUBE FOR HYGIENIC APPLICATIONS | $7,575 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | W304-CS/AL/SS - GMAW BASIC AWS D9.1 SHEET METAL WELDING | $7,800 | 8 wk · 16 hrs | — | — | — | — | — |
Source and date: U.S. Department of Labor, Training Provider Results — the open program index behind trainingproviderresults.gov (state Eligible Training Provider performance reports, form ETA-9171), snapshot taken 2026-09-02; the site states the data cover programs approved as of June 30, 2025 and outcomes for July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2025. Cost is tuition and fees for a non-WIOA participant where the provider reported it (books and supplies added only when reported separately), otherwise the average WIOA training-account dollars per participant — the basis is printed under each figure. The provider’s own program page is linked where it reported one; RetrainMap has not verified those links.
How to read the columns — the federal data dictionary
Definitions from the TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0 (2024-05-15), as shipped in the dataset’s data_dictionary.csv. Median earnings are one calendar quarter, not a year. Percentages of small cohorts are noisy — read the exited count first. A dash means the federal file prints −1 (suppressed: small cohort, not reported, or flagged) — blank here, never zero.
- all_completed_pct (federal field field_c_completed_percent)
- Percent of All Students who completed the program (DE122/DE121) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
- all_employed_q2_pct (federal field field_c_q2_employment_percent)
- Percent of All Students Exiters who were employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE123/DE129) Percent, 0-100 (the federal file stores a 0-1 fraction; converted here).
- all_median_earnings_q2_usd (federal field field_c_median_earnings)
- Median Earnings in the 2nd Quarter after Exit of All Students that are Employed in the 2nd Quarter after Exit (DE125)
- avg_ita_cost_per_wioa_participant_usd (federal field field_c_cost_per_wioa)
- Average number of dollars the training program received from each WIOA participant Individual Training Account (ITA) during the time period (DE138/DE135)
- non_wioa_tuition_fees_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_tuition_cost)
- Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Tuition and Requested Fees (DE111)
- non_wioa_books_supplies_usd (federal field field_non_wioa_supplies_cost)
- Out-of-Pocket Cost for a Non-WIOA Participant: Books and Supplies (DE112)
- length_weeks (federal field field_program_length_weeks)
- Length of the training program in weeks, as completed by a full-time student (DE114); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
- length_hours (federal field field_program_length_hours)
- Length of the training program in clock/contact hours (DE113); a suppressed value (-1) indicates it was reported as a competency-based program
- all_students_exited (federal field field_c_total_exited)
- Total number of individuals exited from the training program (DE121)
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Sources and dates
- U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration — Training Provider Results program index, https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/ · snapshot 2026-09-02 · normalised in the RetrainMap Training Provider Outcomes dataset (suppressed −1 cells blank; percentages 0–100; nothing imputed)
- TrainingProviderResults.gov Data Dictionary v4.0, 2024-05-15 — https://www.trainingproviderresults.gov/assets/ETP_Data_Dictionary.pdf
Other providers in California: the California provider index.