Do carpenters make more in Peoria or Chicago?

Chicago pays more: the median is $75,280 in Peoria and $80,440 in Chicago, a 6% difference.

Carpenter salary in Peoria, IL

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Peoria, IL area earn a median of $75,280 a year, or $36.19 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $105,440 a year. Across all of Illinois, the median is $79,000, so Peoria pays 5% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$75,280

Bottom 10% under$42,440Top 10% over$105,440

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.40/hr
Jobs in this area: 780
After cost of living: $82,520
Median hourly pay: $36.19/hr
vs U.S. median: +24%
vs Illinois median: −5%
Mean (average) pay: $74,600 a year · $35.86 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 37900, Peoria, IL). 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 Peoria, IL 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	$20.40	$42,440
25th percentile	$24.14	$50,220
Median (50th)	$36.19	$75,280
75th percentile	$48.02	$99,880
90th percentile	$50.69	$105,440

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

How Peoria, IL compares

Peoria ranks 6th of 12 Illinois metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Peoria area as nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Peoria or Chicago?: Chicago pays more: the median is $75,280 in Peoria and $80,440 in Chicago, a 6% 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 37900 (Peoria, IL). 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 (91.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures