American Samoa Community College
Precision Metal Working
Pago Pago, AS · Public · SOC 51-4121
As published · retrieved 2026-08-26
What the record says
- Net price, per year
- $3,386
- Published tuition
- $5,300 in-state · $5,600 out
- Earnings, 10 years after starting
- $30,087
- Credential
- Associate's Degree
Average paid after grant aid, across all first-time students at this institution.
Before tools, books, exam fees and living costs.
Institution-wide and measured from entry, so it includes people who never finished. Not specific to this program.
Our estimate · net price only
Four years from now
This is a 2-year program. Over four years you would pay $6,772 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 US median below is what the job pays nationally, for workers at every stage of a career.
The occupation, not this program
What welders earn across the US
$53,750median, per year
Half earn more, half less, across all experience levels. BLS publishes no separate AS figure for this occupation, so this is the US median.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · SOC 51-4121 · survey 2025-05 · retrieved 2026-08-26
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