Carpenter salary in Twin Falls, ID
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Twin Falls, ID area earn a median of $47,470 a year, or $22.82 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $64,860. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $52,000; Twin Falls is 9% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $16.43/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 240
- After cost of living
- $51,540
- Median hourly pay
- $22.82/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −22%
- vs Idaho median
- −9%
- Mean (average) pay
- $50,050 a year · $24.06 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Twin Falls, 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 | $16.43 | $34,170 |
| 25th percentile | $18.48 | $38,440 |
| Median (50th) | $22.82 | $47,470 |
| 75th percentile | $27.41 | $57,000 |
| 90th percentile | $31.18 | $64,860 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Twin Falls, ID compares
- Twin Falls has the lowest carpenter median of the 7 Idaho metro areas with published pay.
- Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Twin Falls area as nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Idaho metro areas
Other trades in Twin Falls, ID
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Twin Falls or Coeur d'Alene?
- Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $47,470 in Twin Falls and $56,160 in Coeur d'Alene, a 15% 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 46300 (Twin Falls, 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 (92.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures