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Carpenter salary in Wildwood, FL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Wildwood–The Villages, FL area earn a median of $47,130 a year, or $22.66 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $62,510. Across all of Florida, the median is $49,870, so Wildwood pays 5% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$47,130
Bottom 10% under$37,190Top 10% over$62,510
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$17.88/hr
Jobs in this area
140
After cost of living
$55,170
Median hourly pay
$22.66/hr
vs U.S. median
−22%
vs Florida median
−5%
Mean (average) pay
$49,780 a year · $23.93 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 48680, Wildwood-The Villages, 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 Wildwood, 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$17.88$37,190
25th percentile$18.85$39,200
Median (50th)$22.66$47,130
75th percentile$26.38$54,880
90th percentile$30.05$62,510

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

How Wildwood, FL compares

  • Wildwood ranks 17th of 22 Florida metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters are less concentrated in the Wildwood area than nationally: 3.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.80 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Wildwood or Tampa?
Tampa pays more: the median is $47,130 in Wildwood and $52,130 in Tampa, a 10% 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 48680 (Wildwood-The Villages, 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 (85.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures