Do carpenters make more in Springfield or St. Louis?

St. Louis pays more: the median is $52,000 in Springfield and $70,990 in St. Louis, a 27% difference.

Carpenter salary in Springfield, MO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Springfield, MO area earn a median of $52,000 a year, or $25.00 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $85,040. That's 15% less than the Missouri median of $60,840.

Median yearly pay$52,000

Bottom 10% under$36,330Top 10% over$85,040

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $17.47/hr
Jobs in this area: 920
After cost of living: $58,700
Median hourly pay: $25.00/hr
vs U.S. median: −14%
vs Missouri median: −15%
Mean (average) pay: $57,140 a year · $27.47 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 44180, Springfield, MO). 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, MO 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	$17.47	$36,330
25th percentile	$21.89	$45,530
Median (50th)	$25.00	$52,000
75th percentile	$31.04	$64,570
90th percentile	$40.89	$85,040

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

How Springfield, MO compares

Springfield ranks 7th of 8 Missouri metro areas for carpenter pay.
Carpenters hold about the same share of jobs in the Springfield area as nationally: 4.1 of every 1,000 jobs.

Other Missouri metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Springfield or St. Louis?: St. Louis pays more: the median is $52,000 in Springfield and $70,990 in St. Louis, a 27% 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 44180 (Springfield, MO). 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 (88.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures