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Carpenter salary in Sierra Vista, AZ

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Sierra Vista–Douglas, AZ area earn a median of $43,910 a year, or $21.11 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $61,600. That's 25% less than the Arizona median of $58,580.

Median yearly pay$43,910
Bottom 10% under$34,820Top 10% over$61,600
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$16.74/hr
Jobs in this area
150
After cost of living
$49,200
Median hourly pay
$21.11/hr
vs U.S. median
−28%
vs Arizona median
−25%
Mean (average) pay
$47,030 a year · $22.61 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 43420, Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ). 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 Sierra Vista, AZ 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$16.74$34,820
25th percentile$18.24$37,950
Median (50th)$21.11$43,910
75th percentile$26.67$55,470
90th percentile$29.62$61,600

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

How Sierra Vista, AZ compares

  • Sierra Vista has the lowest carpenter median of the 7 Arizona metro areas with published pay.
  • Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Sierra Vista area as nationally: 4.3 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Arizona metro areas

Other trades in Sierra Vista, AZ

Questions

Do carpenters make more in Sierra Vista or Phoenix?
Phoenix pays more: the median is $43,910 in Sierra Vista and $60,320 in Phoenix, a 27% 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 43420 (Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ). 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 (89.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures