Do carpenters make more in Sebring or Tampa?

Tampa pays more: the median is $47,400 in Sebring and $52,130 in Tampa, a 9% difference.

Carpenter salary in Sebring, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Sebring, FL area earn a median of $47,400 a year, or $22.79 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $62,590 a year. Across all of Florida, the median is $49,870, so Sebring pays 5% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$47,400

Bottom 10% under$33,610Top 10% over$62,590

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $16.16/hr
Jobs in this area: 90
After cost of living: $51,260
Median hourly pay: $22.79/hr
vs U.S. median: −22%
vs Florida median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $48,160 a year · $23.15 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 42700, Sebring, 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 Sebring, 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.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$16.16	$33,610
25th percentile	$18.45	$38,370
Median (50th)	$22.79	$47,400
75th percentile	$26.36	$54,830
90th percentile	$30.09	$62,590

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

How Sebring, FL compares

Sebring ranks 16th of 22 Florida metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Sebring area than nationally: 3.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.74 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Sebring or Tampa?: Tampa pays more: the median is $47,400 in Sebring and $52,130 in Tampa, a 9% 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 42700 (Sebring, 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 (92.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures