Do carpenters make more in Omaha or Sioux City?

Omaha pays more: the median is $52,800 in Omaha and $51,100 in Sioux City, a 3% difference.

Carpenter salary in Omaha, NE-IA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Carpenters in the Omaha, NE-IA area earn a median of $52,800 a year, or $25.39 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $74,090. That's 5% more than the Nebraska median of $50,320.

Median yearly pay$52,800

Bottom 10% under$40,420Top 10% over$74,090

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $19.43/hr
Jobs in this area: 3,230
After cost of living: $57,450
Median hourly pay: $25.39/hr
vs U.S. median: −13%
vs Nebraska median: +5%
Mean (average) pay: $56,590 a year · $27.21 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 36540, Omaha, NE-IA). 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 Omaha, NE-IA 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	$19.43	$40,420
25th percentile	$22.36	$46,520
Median (50th)	$25.39	$52,800
75th percentile	$31.06	$64,610
90th percentile	$35.62	$74,090

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

How Omaha, NE-IA compares

Omaha has the highest carpenter median of the 4 Nebraska metro areas with published pay.
Carpenters are more concentrated in the Omaha area than nationally: 6.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Nebraska metro areas

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Questions

Do carpenters make more in Omaha or Sioux City?: Omaha pays more: the median is $52,800 in Omaha and $51,100 in Sioux City, a 3% 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 36540 (Omaha, NE-IA). 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 (91.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures