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Carpenter salary in Yuba City, CA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Yuba City, CA area earn a median of $76,100 a year, or $36.59 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $116,880. That's about the same as the California median of $75,920.

Median yearly pay$76,100
Bottom 10% under$48,160Top 10% over$116,880
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$23.15/hr
Jobs in this area
220
After cost of living
$73,010
Median hourly pay
$36.59/hr
vs U.S. median
+26%
vs California median
0%
Mean (average) pay
$77,830 a year · $37.42 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 49700, Yuba City, 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 Yuba City, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$23.15$48,160
25th percentile$28.65$59,590
Median (50th)$36.59$76,100
75th percentile$42.21$87,790
90th percentile$56.19$116,880

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

How Yuba City, CA compares

  • Yuba City ranks 8th of 25 California metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Yuba City area as nationally: 4.4 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other California metro areas

Other trades in Yuba City, CA

Questions

Do carpenters make more in Yuba City or San Francisco?
San Francisco pays more: the median is $76,100 in Yuba City 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 49700 (Yuba City, 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 (104.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures