Do carpenters make more in Salisbury or Lexington Park?

Lexington Park pays more: the median is $50,410 in Salisbury and $62,880 in Lexington Park, a 20% difference.

Carpenter salary in Salisbury, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Salisbury, MD area earn a median of $50,410 a year, or $24.23 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $70,190. That's 20% less than the Maryland median of $62,960.

Median yearly pay$50,410

Bottom 10% under$37,450Top 10% over$70,190

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.01/hr
Jobs in this area: 130
After cost of living: $52,720
Median hourly pay: $24.23/hr
vs U.S. median: −17%
vs Maryland median: −20%
Mean (average) pay: $54,040 a year · $25.98 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41540, Salisbury, 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 Salisbury, 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	$18.01	$37,450
25th percentile	$21.69	$45,120
Median (50th)	$24.23	$50,410
75th percentile	$30.32	$63,070
90th percentile	$33.74	$70,190

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

How Salisbury, MD compares

Salisbury has the lowest carpenter median of the 6 Maryland metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are less concentrated in the Salisbury area than nationally: 2.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.58 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Salisbury or Lexington Park?: Lexington Park pays more: the median is $50,410 in Salisbury and $62,880 in Lexington Park, a 20% 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 41540 (Salisbury, 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 (95.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures