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Carpenter salary in Greeley, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Greeley, CO area earn a median of $57,880 a year, or $27.83 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $73,380. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $62,830; Greeley is 8% below it.

Median yearly pay$57,880
Bottom 10% under$45,870Top 10% over$73,380
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$22.05/hr
Jobs in this area
560
After cost of living
$57,780
Median hourly pay
$27.83/hr
vs U.S. median
−4%
vs Colorado median
−8%
Mean (average) pay
$58,820 a year · $28.28 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24540, Greeley, CO). 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 Greeley, CO 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$22.05$45,870
25th percentile$24.38$50,720
Median (50th)$27.83$57,880
75th percentile$30.06$62,520
90th percentile$35.28$73,380

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

How Greeley, CO compares

  • Greeley ranks 5th of 7 Colorado metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Greeley area as nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Colorado metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Greeley or Denver?
Denver pays more: the median is $57,880 in Greeley and $64,910 in Denver, a 11% 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 24540 (Greeley, CO). 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures