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Carpenter salary in Pensacola, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Pensacola–Ferry Pass–Brent, FL area earn a median of $47,920 a year, or $23.04 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $64,320 a year. Across all of Florida, the median is $49,870, so Pensacola pays 4% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$47,920
Bottom 10% under$35,540Top 10% over$64,320
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$17.09/hr
Jobs in this area
660
After cost of living
$49,040
Median hourly pay
$23.04/hr
vs U.S. median
−21%
vs Florida median
−4%
Mean (average) pay
$49,770 a year · $23.93 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 37860, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL). 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 Pensacola, FL 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$17.09$35,540
25th percentile$19.22$39,980
Median (50th)$23.04$47,920
75th percentile$27.44$57,080
90th percentile$30.92$64,320

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

How Pensacola, FL compares

  • Pensacola ranks 14th of 22 Florida metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters are less concentrated in the Pensacola area than nationally: 3.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.81 times the U.S. share.

Other Florida metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Pensacola or Tampa?
Tampa pays more: the median is $47,920 in Pensacola and $52,130 in Tampa, a 8% 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 37860 (Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL). 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 (97.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures