Carpenter salary in Dubuque, IA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Dubuque, IA area earn a median of $60,090 a year, or $28.89 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $77,920 a year. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $57,710; Dubuque is 4% above it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $19.19/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 260
- After cost of living
- $68,810
- Median hourly pay
- $28.89/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −1%
- vs Iowa median
- +4%
- Mean (average) pay
- $58,600 a year · $28.17 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Dubuque, IA 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 | $19.19 | $39,920 |
| 25th percentile | $23.41 | $48,690 |
| Median (50th) | $28.89 | $60,090 |
| 75th percentile | $30.47 | $63,370 |
| 90th percentile | $37.46 | $77,920 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Dubuque, IA compares
- Dubuque ranks 3rd of 9 Iowa metro areas for carpenter pay.
- Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Dubuque area as nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Iowa metro areas
Other trades in Dubuque, IA
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Dubuque or Des Moines?
- Des Moines pays more: the median is $60,090 in Dubuque and $61,360 in Des Moines, a 2% 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 20220 (Dubuque, IA). 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 (87.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures