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Carpenter salary in Port St. Lucie, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Port St. Lucie, FL area earn a median of $48,640 a year, or $23.38 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $64,640 a year. That's 2% less than the Florida median of $49,870.

Median yearly pay$48,640
Bottom 10% under$36,460Top 10% over$64,640
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$17.53/hr
Jobs in this area
1,060
After cost of living
$48,530
Median hourly pay
$23.38/hr
vs U.S. median
−20%
vs Florida median
−2%
Mean (average) pay
$51,010 a year · $24.53 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38940, Port St. Lucie, 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 Port St. Lucie, 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$17.53$36,460
25th percentile$20.65$42,960
Median (50th)$23.38$48,640
75th percentile$28.14$58,530
90th percentile$31.08$64,640

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

How Port St. Lucie, FL compares

  • Port St. Lucie ranks 10th of 22 Florida metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters are more concentrated in the Port St. Lucie area than nationally: 6.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Port St. Lucie or Tampa?
Tampa pays more: the median is $48,640 in Port St. Lucie and $52,130 in Tampa, a 7% 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 38940 (Port St. Lucie, 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures