Do carpenters make more in Napa or San Francisco?

San Francisco pays more: the median is $80,590 in Napa and $89,200 in San Francisco, a 10% difference.

Carpenter salary in Napa, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Napa, CA area earn a median of $80,590 a year, or $38.75 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $133,250 a year. Across all of California, the median is $75,920, so Napa pays 6% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$80,590

Bottom 10% under$54,870Top 10% over$133,250

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $26.38/hr
Jobs in this area: 650
After cost of living: $71,600
Median hourly pay: $38.75/hr
vs U.S. median: +33%
vs California median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $86,890 a year · $41.78 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 34900, Napa, CA). 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 Napa, CA 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	$26.38	$54,870
25th percentile	$30.44	$63,310
Median (50th)	$38.75	$80,590
75th percentile	$46.96	$97,680
90th percentile	$64.06	$133,250

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

How Napa, CA compares

Napa ranks 2nd of 25 California metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Napa area than nationally: 8.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Napa or San Francisco?: San Francisco pays more: the median is $80,590 in Napa and $89,200 in San Francisco, a 10% 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 34900 (Napa, CA). 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 (112.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures