Do carpenters make more in Pueblo or Denver?

Denver pays more: the median is $56,150 in Pueblo and $64,910 in Denver, a 13% difference.

Carpenter salary in Pueblo, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Pueblo, CO area earn a median of $56,150 a year, or $27.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $77,380. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $62,830; Pueblo is 11% below it.

Median yearly pay$56,150

Bottom 10% under$38,510Top 10% over$77,380

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.52/hr
Jobs in this area: 180
After cost of living: $61,190
Median hourly pay: $27.00/hr
vs U.S. median: −7%
vs Colorado median: −11%
Mean (average) pay: $58,130 a year · $27.95 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 39380, Pueblo, 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 Pueblo, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$18.52	$38,510
25th percentile	$22.69	$47,190
Median (50th)	$27.00	$56,150
75th percentile	$30.98	$64,450
90th percentile	$37.20	$77,380

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

How Pueblo, CO compares

Pueblo has the lowest carpenter median of the 7 Colorado metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Pueblo area than nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.67 times the U.S. share.

Other Colorado metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Pueblo or Denver?: Denver pays more: the median is $56,150 in Pueblo and $64,910 in Denver, a 13% 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 39380 (Pueblo, 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 (91.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures