Do carpenters make more in Baltimore or Lexington Park?

Lexington Park pays more: the median is $62,380 in Baltimore and $62,880 in Lexington Park, a 1% difference.

Carpenter salary in Baltimore, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, MD area earn a median of $62,380 a year, or $29.99 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $85,470. Statewide, carpenters earn a median of $62,960; Baltimore is 1% below it.

Median yearly pay$62,380

Bottom 10% under$42,840Top 10% over$85,470

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.59/hr
Jobs in this area: 3,870
After cost of living: $59,700
Median hourly pay: $29.99/hr
vs U.S. median: +3%
vs Maryland median: −1%
Mean (average) pay: $64,560 a year · $31.04 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12580, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). 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 Baltimore, MD 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	$20.59	$42,840
25th percentile	$24.96	$51,910
Median (50th)	$29.99	$62,380
75th percentile	$36.06	$75,010
90th percentile	$41.09	$85,470

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

How Baltimore, MD compares

Baltimore ranks 2nd of 6 Maryland metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Baltimore area than nationally: 2.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.66 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

Other trades in Baltimore, MD

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Baltimore or Lexington Park?: Lexington Park pays more: the median is $62,380 in Baltimore and $62,880 in Lexington Park, a 1% 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 12580 (Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). 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 (104.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures