Do carpenters make more in Owensboro or Cincinnati?

Cincinnati pays more: the median is $52,360 in Owensboro and $60,110 in Cincinnati, a 13% difference.

Carpenter salary in Owensboro, KY

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Owensboro, KY area earn a median of $52,360 a year, or $25.17 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $75,010. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $52,680; Owensboro is 1% below it.

Median yearly pay$52,360

Bottom 10% under$35,340Top 10% over$75,010

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $16.99/hr
Jobs in this area: 210
After cost of living: $59,090
Median hourly pay: $25.17/hr
vs U.S. median: −14%
vs Kentucky median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $54,870 a year · $26.38 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36980, Owensboro, KY). 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 Owensboro, KY 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	$16.99	$35,340
25th percentile	$22.67	$47,160
Median (50th)	$25.17	$52,360
75th percentile	$29.40	$61,140
90th percentile	$36.06	$75,010

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

How Owensboro, KY compares

Owensboro ranks 4th of 9 Kentucky metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Owensboro area as nationally: 4.3 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Kentucky metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Owensboro or Cincinnati?: Cincinnati pays more: the median is $52,360 in Owensboro and $60,110 in Cincinnati, a 13% 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 36980 (Owensboro, KY). 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 (88.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures