Do carpenters make more in St. Cloud or Minneapolis?

Minneapolis pays more: the median is $60,600 in St. Cloud and $74,060 in Minneapolis, a 18% difference.

Carpenter salary in St. Cloud, MN

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the St. Cloud, MN area earn a median of $60,600 a year, or $29.14 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $89,510. Across all of Minnesota, the median is $64,930, so St. Cloud pays 7% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$60,600

Bottom 10% under$45,570Top 10% over$89,510

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.91/hr
Jobs in this area: 570
After cost of living: $69,150
Median hourly pay: $29.14/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs Minnesota median: −7%
Mean (average) pay: $63,910 a year · $30.73 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41060, St. Cloud, 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 St. Cloud, 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	$21.91	$45,570
25th percentile	$23.37	$48,610
Median (50th)	$29.14	$60,600
75th percentile	$36.78	$76,500
90th percentile	$43.03	$89,510

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

How St. Cloud, MN compares

St. Cloud ranks 4th of 9 Minnesota metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the St. Cloud area than nationally: 5.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in St. Cloud or Minneapolis?: Minneapolis pays more: the median is $60,600 in St. Cloud and $74,060 in Minneapolis, a 18% 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 41060 (St. Cloud, 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 (87.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures