Do carpenters make more in Pittsfield or Springfield?

Springfield pays more: the median is $63,050 in Pittsfield and $75,520 in Springfield, a 17% difference.

Carpenter salary in Pittsfield, MA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Pittsfield, MA area earn a median of $63,050 a year, or $30.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $96,080. That's 16% less than the Massachusetts median of $75,200.

Median yearly pay$63,050

Bottom 10% under$46,520Top 10% over$96,080

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.37/hr
Jobs in this area: 430
After cost of living: $66,290
Median hourly pay: $30.31/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Massachusetts median: −16%
Mean (average) pay: $67,590 a year · $32.50 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38340, Pittsfield, MA). 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 Pittsfield, 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	$22.37	$46,520
25th percentile	$25.70	$53,460
Median (50th)	$30.31	$63,050
75th percentile	$37.40	$77,790
90th percentile	$46.19	$96,080

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

How Pittsfield, MA compares

Pittsfield ranks 6th of 7 Massachusetts metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Pittsfield area than nationally: 7.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Pittsfield or Springfield?: Springfield pays more: the median is $63,050 in Pittsfield and $75,520 in Springfield, a 17% 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 38340 (Pittsfield, 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 (95.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures