Do carpenters make more in Vallejo or San Francisco?

San Francisco pays more: the median is $76,220 in Vallejo and $89,200 in San Francisco, a 15% difference.

Carpenter salary in Vallejo, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Vallejo, CA area earn a median of $76,220 a year, or $36.64 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $126,820. That's about the same as the California median of $75,920.

Median yearly pay$76,220

Bottom 10% under$51,050Top 10% over$126,820

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $24.54/hr
Jobs in this area: 660
After cost of living: $70,260
Median hourly pay: $36.64/hr
vs U.S. median: +26%
vs California median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $80,420 a year · $38.66 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 46700, Vallejo, 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 Vallejo, 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	$24.54	$51,050
25th percentile	$29.37	$61,090
Median (50th)	$36.64	$76,220
75th percentile	$43.86	$91,230
90th percentile	$60.97	$126,820

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

How Vallejo, CA compares

Vallejo ranks 7th of 25 California metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Vallejo area as nationally: 4.6 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Vallejo or San Francisco?: San Francisco pays more: the median is $76,220 in Vallejo and $89,200 in San Francisco, a 15% 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 46700 (Vallejo, 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 (108.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures