Do carpenters make more in Mankato or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $61,150 in Mankato and $74,060 in Minneapolis, a 17% difference.

Carpenter salary in Mankato, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Mankato, MN area earn a median of $61,150 a year, or $29.40 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $78,220. Across all of Minnesota, the median is $64,930, so Mankato pays 6% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$61,150

Bottom 10% under$45,900Top 10% over$78,220

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.07/hr
Jobs in this area: 230
After cost of living: $67,230
Median hourly pay: $29.40/hr
vs U.S. median: +1%
vs Minnesota median: −6%
Mean (average) pay: $61,860 a year · $29.74 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 31860, Mankato, MN). 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 Mankato, MN 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	$22.07	$45,900
25th percentile	$23.14	$48,120
Median (50th)	$29.40	$61,150
75th percentile	$37.44	$77,870
90th percentile	$37.60	$78,220

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

How Mankato, MN compares

Mankato ranks 3rd of 9 Minnesota metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Mankato area as nationally: 4.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Minnesota metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Mankato or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $61,150 in Mankato and $74,060 in Minneapolis, 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 31860 (Mankato, MN). 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 (91.0, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures