SOWELA Technical Community College
Precision Metal Working
Lake Charles, Louisiana · Public · SOC 51-4121
- Net price, per year
- $7,525
- Published tuition
- $4,305
- Completion rate
- 43%
- Earnings, 10 years after starting
- $32,303
- Credential
- Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma
Average paid after grant aid, across all first-time students at this institution.
Before tools, books, exam fees and living costs.
Finished within 150% of normal time. Institution-wide, all programmes.
Institution-wide and measured from entry, so it includes people who never finished. Not specific to this programme.
Four years from now
This is a one-year program. Over four years you would pay $7,525 in net price.
We do not show what you would earn afterwards, because nobody publishes year-one earnings for a specific program. Guessing it would be the kind of number this site exists to avoid. The Louisiana median below is what the job pays across the whole state, for workers at every stage of a career.
What welders earn in Louisiana
$62,250median, per year
Half earn more, half less, across all experience levels. National median $53,750.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · SOC 51-4121 · survey 2025-05 · retrieved 2026-08-26