Do carpenters make more in Slidell or Baton Rouge?

Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $48,310 in Slidell and $55,630 in Baton Rouge, a 13% difference.

Carpenter salary in Slidell, LA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Slidell–Mandeville–Covington, LA area earn a median of $48,310 a year, or $23.23 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $72,340. That's 3% less than the Louisiana median of $49,920.

Median yearly pay$48,310

Bottom 10% under$30,380Top 10% over$72,340

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $14.61/hr
Jobs in this area: 450
After cost of living: $52,100
Median hourly pay: $23.23/hr
vs U.S. median: −20%
vs Louisiana median: −3%
Mean (average) pay: $50,030 a year · $24.05 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 43640, Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA). 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 Slidell, LA 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	$14.61	$30,380
25th percentile	$17.98	$37,400
Median (50th)	$23.23	$48,310
75th percentile	$28.08	$58,400
90th percentile	$34.78	$72,340

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

How Slidell, LA compares

Slidell ranks 4th of 10 Louisiana metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Slidell area as nationally: 4.6 of every 1,000 jobs.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Slidell or Baton Rouge?: Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $48,310 in Slidell and $55,630 in Baton Rouge, 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 43640 (Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA). 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 (92.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures