Do carpenters make more in Savannah or Augusta?

Augusta pays more: the median is $44,900 in Savannah and $58,930 in Augusta, a 24% difference.

Carpenter salary in Savannah, GA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Savannah, GA area earn a median of $44,900 a year, or $21.59 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $65,070. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $49,350; Savannah is 9% below it.

Median yearly pay$44,900

Bottom 10% under$32,410Top 10% over$65,070

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $15.58/hr
Jobs in this area: 330
After cost of living: $47,160
Median hourly pay: $21.59/hr
vs U.S. median: −26%
vs Georgia median: −9%
Mean (average) pay: $46,300 a year · $22.26 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 42340, Savannah, 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 Savannah, 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	$15.58	$32,410
25th percentile	$18.51	$38,510
Median (50th)	$21.59	$44,900
75th percentile	$26.34	$54,790
90th percentile	$31.29	$65,070

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

How Savannah, GA compares

Savannah ranks 8th of 14 Georgia metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Savannah area than nationally: 1.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.39 times the U.S. share.

Other Georgia metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Savannah or Augusta?: Augusta pays more: the median is $44,900 in Savannah and $58,930 in Augusta, a 24% 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 42340 (Savannah, 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 (95.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures