Do carpenters make more in Bangor or Portland?

Portland pays more: the median is $57,100 in Bangor and $64,300 in Portland, a 11% difference.

Carpenter salary in Bangor, ME

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Bangor, ME area earn a median of $57,100 a year, or $27.45 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $72,640 a year. That's 8% less than the Maine median of $62,160.

Median yearly pay$57,100

Bottom 10% under$39,000Top 10% over$72,640

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.75/hr
Jobs in this area: 430
After cost of living: $59,170
Median hourly pay: $27.45/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Maine median: −8%
Mean (average) pay: $56,560 a year · $27.19 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12620, Bangor, ME). 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 Bangor, ME 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	$18.75	$39,000
25th percentile	$23.29	$48,450
Median (50th)	$27.45	$57,100
75th percentile	$30.70	$63,860
90th percentile	$34.93	$72,640

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

How Bangor, ME compares

Bangor has the lowest carpenter median of the 3 Maine metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Bangor area than nationally: 6.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.4 times the U.S. share.

Other Maine metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Bangor or Portland?: Portland pays more: the median is $57,100 in Bangor and $64,300 in Portland, a 11% 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 12620 (Bangor, ME). 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 (96.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures