Do carpenters make more in Albany or Augusta?

Augusta pays more: the median is $38,400 in Albany and $58,930 in Augusta, a 35% difference.

Carpenter salary in Albany, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Albany, GA area earn a median of $38,400 a year, or $18.46 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $60,600. Across all of Georgia, the median is $49,350, so Albany pays 22% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$38,400

Bottom 10% under$22,930Top 10% over$60,600

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $11.02/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $43,800
Median hourly pay: $18.46/hr
vs U.S. median: −37%
vs Georgia median: −22%
Mean (average) pay: $41,600 a year · $20.00 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 10500, Albany, GA). 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 Albany, GA 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	$11.02	$22,930
25th percentile	$17.38	$36,140
Median (50th)	$18.46	$38,400
75th percentile	$23.55	$48,980
90th percentile	$29.13	$60,600

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

How Albany, GA compares

Albany ranks 13th of 14 Georgia metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Albany area than nationally: 1.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.31 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

Other trades in Albany, GA

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Albany or Augusta?: Augusta pays more: the median is $38,400 in Albany and $58,930 in Augusta, a 35% 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 10500 (Albany, GA). 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 (87.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures