Carpenter salary in Barnstable Town, MA
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Carpenters in the Barnstable Town, MA area earn a median of $70,580 a year, or $33.93 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $98,330. That's 6% less than the Massachusetts median of $75,200.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.41/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 1,280
- After cost of living
- $71,760
- Median hourly pay
- $33.93/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +17%
- vs Massachusetts median
- −6%
- Mean (average) pay
- $72,370 a year · $34.79 an hour
Pay by percentile
What carpenters in Barnstable Town, MA 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 | $22.41 | $46,610 |
| 25th percentile | $29.39 | $61,140 |
| Median (50th) | $33.93 | $70,580 |
| 75th percentile | $38.65 | $80,390 |
| 90th percentile | $47.27 | $98,330 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Barnstable Town, MA compares
- Barnstable Town ranks 4th of 7 Massachusetts metro areas for carpenter pay.
- Carpenters are more concentrated in the Barnstable Town area than nationally: 13.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 3.1 times the U.S. share.
Other Massachusetts metro areas
Other trades in Barnstable Town, MA
Questions
- Do carpenters make more in Barnstable Town or Springfield?
- Springfield pays more: the median is $70,580 in Barnstable Town and $75,520 in Springfield, a 7% 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 12700 (Barnstable Town, MA). 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 (98.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures