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Carpenter salary in Springfield, MA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Springfield, MA area earn a median of $75,520 a year, or $36.31 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $100,510. That's about the same as the Massachusetts median of $75,200.

Median yearly pay$75,520
Bottom 10% under$49,470Top 10% over$100,510
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$23.78/hr
Jobs in this area
660
After cost of living
$78,620
Median hourly pay
$36.31/hr
vs U.S. median
+25%
vs Massachusetts median
0%
Mean (average) pay
$75,620 a year · $36.35 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44140, Springfield, 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 Springfield, 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$23.78$49,470
25th percentile$28.38$59,040
Median (50th)$36.31$75,520
75th percentile$42.01$87,380
90th percentile$48.32$100,510

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

How Springfield, MA compares

  • Springfield has the highest carpenter median of the 7 Massachusetts metro areas with published pay.
  • Carpenters are less concentrated in the Springfield area than nationally: 3.3 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.76 times the U.S. share.

Other Massachusetts metro areas

Other trades in Springfield, MA

Questions

Do carpenters make more in Springfield or Boston?
Pay is about the same: the median is $75,520 in Springfield and $75,210 in Boston.

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 44140 (Springfield, 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 (96.1, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures