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Carpenter salary in Terre Haute, IN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Terre Haute, IN area earn a median of $60,560 a year, or $29.12 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $80,610 a year. That's 4% less than the Indiana median of $62,870.

Median yearly pay$60,560
Bottom 10% under$38,950Top 10% over$80,610
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.72/hr
Jobs in this area
280
After cost of living
$68,980
Median hourly pay
$29.12/hr
vs U.S. median
0%
vs Indiana median
−4%
Mean (average) pay
$61,880 a year · $29.75 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 45460, Terre Haute, IN). 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 Terre Haute, IN 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$18.72$38,950
25th percentile$23.77$49,450
Median (50th)$29.12$60,560
75th percentile$35.55$73,940
90th percentile$38.75$80,610

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

How Terre Haute, IN compares

  • Terre Haute ranks 11th of 15 Indiana metro areas for carpenter pay.
  • Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Terre Haute area as nationally: 4.3 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Indiana metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Terre Haute or Chicago?
Chicago pays more: the median is $60,560 in Terre Haute and $80,440 in Chicago, a 25% 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 45460 (Terre Haute, IN). 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 (87.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures