Do carpenters make more in Macon or Augusta?

Augusta pays more: the median is $41,670 in Macon and $58,930 in Augusta, a 29% difference.

Carpenter salary in Macon, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Macon–Bibb County, GA area earn a median of $41,670 a year, or $20.03 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $62,950 a year. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $49,350; Macon is 16% below it.

Median yearly pay$41,670

Bottom 10% under$30,050Top 10% over$62,950

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $14.45/hr
Jobs in this area: 70
After cost of living: $47,070
Median hourly pay: $20.03/hr
vs U.S. median: −31%
vs Georgia median: −16%
Mean (average) pay: $45,530 a year · $21.89 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31420, Macon-Bibb County, 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 Macon, 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	$14.45	$30,050
25th percentile	$16.47	$34,260
Median (50th)	$20.03	$41,670
75th percentile	$27.05	$56,270
90th percentile	$30.27	$62,950

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

How Macon, GA compares

Macon ranks 12th of 14 Georgia metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Macon area than nationally: 0.8 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.18 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Macon or Augusta?: Augusta pays more: the median is $41,670 in Macon and $58,930 in Augusta, a 29% 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 31420 (Macon-Bibb County, 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 (88.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures