Do carpenters make more in Montgomery or Birmingham?

Birmingham pays more: the median is $47,360 in Montgomery and $50,400 in Birmingham, a 6% difference.

Carpenter salary in Montgomery, AL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Montgomery, AL area earn a median of $47,360 a year, or $22.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $60,100. That's 2% less than the Alabama median of $48,220.

Median yearly pay$47,360

Bottom 10% under$34,080Top 10% over$60,100

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $16.39/hr
Jobs in this area: 300
After cost of living: $52,810
Median hourly pay: $22.77/hr
vs U.S. median: −22%
vs Alabama median: −2%
Mean (average) pay: $47,200 a year · $22.69 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33860, Montgomery, AL). Excludes self-employed carpenters. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What carpenters in Montgomery, AL earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$16.39	$34,080
25th percentile	$17.72	$36,850
Median (50th)	$22.77	$47,360
75th percentile	$26.19	$54,480
90th percentile	$28.89	$60,100

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Montgomery, AL compares

Montgomery ranks 9th of 13 Alabama metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Montgomery area than nationally: 1.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.43 times the U.S. share.

Other Alabama metro areas

Other trades in Montgomery, AL

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Montgomery or Birmingham?: Birmingham pays more: the median is $47,360 in Montgomery and $50,400 in Birmingham, a 6% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2031 (Carpenters), area code 33860 (Montgomery, AL). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed carpenters and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (89.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures