Carpenter salary in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Coeur d'Alene, ID area earn a median of $56,160 a year, or $27.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $77,050 a year. That's 8% more than the Idaho median of $52,000.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.91/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 790
- After cost of living
- $57,140
- Median hourly pay
- $27.00/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −7%
- vs Idaho median
- +8%
- Mean (average) pay
- $58,330 a year · $28.04 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Coeur d'Alene, ID 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 | $18.91 | $39,330 |
| 25th percentile | $23.14 | $48,140 |
| Median (50th) | $27.00 | $56,160 |
| 75th percentile | $30.11 | $62,630 |
| 90th percentile | $37.04 | $77,050 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Coeur d'Alene, ID compares
- Coeur d'Alene ranks 2nd of 7 Idaho metro areas for carpenter pay.
- Carpenters are more concentrated in the Coeur d'Alene area than nationally: 10.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.5 times the U.S. share.
Other Idaho metro areas
Other trades in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Coeur d'Alene or Idaho Falls?
- Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $56,160 in Coeur d'Alene and $52,140 in Idaho Falls, a 8% 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 17660 (Coeur d'Alene, ID). 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 (98.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures