Do carpenters make more in Bozeman or Billings?

Bozeman pays more: the median is $62,450 in Bozeman and $58,950 in Billings, a 6% difference.

Carpenter salary in Bozeman, MT

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Bozeman, MT area earn a median of $62,450 a year, or $30.02 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $80,540 a year. That's 6% more than the Montana median of $58,820.

Median yearly pay$62,450

Bottom 10% under$48,660Top 10% over$80,540

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $23.40/hr
Jobs in this area: 900
After cost of living: $60,920
Median hourly pay: $30.02/hr
vs U.S. median: +3%
vs Montana median: +6%
Mean (average) pay: $65,740 a year · $31.61 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14580, Bozeman, MT). 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 Bozeman, MT 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	$23.40	$48,660
25th percentile	$28.28	$58,820
Median (50th)	$30.02	$62,450
75th percentile	$36.07	$75,020
90th percentile	$38.72	$80,540

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

How Bozeman, MT compares

Bozeman has the highest carpenter median of the 5 Montana metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Bozeman area than nationally: 12.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.9 times the U.S. share.

Other Montana metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Bozeman or Billings?: Bozeman pays more: the median is $62,450 in Bozeman and $58,950 in Billings, a 6% 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 14580 (Bozeman, MT). 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 (102.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures